Quoting pauls42:

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2 1/2 mins from mirror 1..

Of course then the restore comparing headshots took 1 1/2 hrs plus (estimate)


It looks like Simon Cowell has the wrong headshot..

What they put a head on him?

Steve

Quoting snarbo:

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Have found some of the pics I have are better quality perhaps I can resend for a re-evaluation Juoquim?
Will let things settle first other users might find the same.

Steve

Please do!  But, let's try and get the Master cleaned up a bit first.  I'll still accept updates.  They just won't go in until we have V2 released.

I used the Name Variants plugin and found quite a number of unnecessary BY's (John Cleese, Tom Hanks) just by comparing people that are both in cast and crew. I also spotted many more (Ann-Margret, Fairuza Balk, Drew Barrymore, Billy Crystal, Jamie Lee Curtis, Robert de Niro, Cameron Diaz, Erika Eleniak, Stephen Fry, John Goodman, Jane Horrocks, Shirley Jones, Kevin Kline, Jane Leeves, John Lithgow) after the picture update, just by random checking. I am sure only a few of these were in my data before the pictures update (including almost everybody on The '70s Show).

Most ridiculous is Harrison Ford, who got a birth year of 1884, but the right picture...

On the other hand, the NV plugin has already shown me several cases where a BY would actually help distinguish actors with the same name (Kenny Baker, Matthew Beard, Erin M. Gray, John Howard, Michael Jackson, Peter Kent).

I don't think so, the Harrison Ford I want is not the one from 1884, so I'll keep the present picture.
But you are right, I probably did not accept this, so the wrong date must have come from somewhere else. Or would the date be copied even if the picture isn't? After all, this is a cast/crew update, not a picture update.

Actually, I just checked it out myself.  It looks like the Harrison Ford that was originally in the Star Wars movies was appropriated for the Silent Film actor.  I will send an update to the Star Wars films later to get the correct Harrison Ford linked to them.

I did an experiment with a peculiar result. I had removed "1884" from Harrison Ford and checked in Indiana Jones and Star Wars that this was now correct (with my orginal picture).
Then I uploaded the headshot database again, with the setting to keep all existing pictures. As expected, I got no questions to keep or replace.
When I checked Harrison Ford, the 1884 reference is back. Same for several others that I removed (John Cleese etc.). This behavior makes it difficult to use the BY even for its intended purpose, unless both instances have a BY attached, I guess.

So this would actually induce me to add a BY, where many people voice the opinion to stay away from these for the moment.

Quoting Staid S Barr:

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So this would actually induce me to add a BY, where many people voice the opinion to stay away from these for the moment.

The longer it takes Ken to come up with a BY solution, the more they're going to proliferate through the database like a virus.  At this point I doubt there is a solution other than trashing BY altogether.  It was a poor design idea to add the feature without providing any rules or guidance for when it is to be used.