Why does the invelos database add a birth year to certain actors when contributing new data? Does this only occur when there are more than one actor in the database with the same name? If not, then why doesn't it come up all the time?

I was entering another disc id for UPC 027616853981 (Never Say Never Again) and, under Cast, Sean Connery's birth year 1930 came up but requested further documentation.

Max von Sydow also came up with the change Max Von Sydow but did not request further information.

Thank you in advance for help in clarifying this for me.

I've noticed this too., I add one little item, and when I go to submit I find I have actors names misspelled differently, and birth years in place that were never there in my original data..

This is a problem caused by the fact that the program cannot deal with Upper and Lower case. It does not recognize that there is a difference between Von and von. Yet filmmakers will sometimes credit Von and sometimes von, same is true for many other names DiGiloramo/Digiloramo. The only way we can deal with it at this time is through the alias system, to be able to correctly display how the person is credited for THIS particular film.

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