Bill Thompson did some voice acting for Disney including "Lady and the Tramp" (1955) "Alice In Wonderland" (1951) and "Sleeping Beauty" (1959)

His name links to "Bill Thompson" which was a "Paris Island recruit" in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987).  Now since he died in 1971 I doubt he would be playing a recruit in 1987 lol.

He is not an approved BY, so how does one get it approved so they can be separated?

Pardon my ignorance, BUt I really ahve not done much with cast and crew except copy from one UPC to another.

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Bill Thompson did some voice acting for Disney including "Lady and the Tramp" (1955) "Alice In Wonderland" (1951) and "Sleeping Beauty" (1959)

His name links to "Bill Thompson" which was a "Paris Island recruit" in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987).  Now since he died in 1971 I doubt he would be playing a recruit in 1987 lol.

He is not an approved BY, so how does one get it approved so they can be separated?

Pardon my ignorance, BUt I really ahve not done much with cast and crew except copy from one UPC to another.

Take a look at the BY thread that is pinned in this forum and you will get an idea as to what the process is.  Basically, you have to document the BY for the actor(s) involved and submit it.  Be very specific in your notes when you contribute, explaining why the BY is needed and you will need a couple of sources to prove the BY.

So I post in the BY thread?

If so can I put the contribution in before?  Or do I wait until it is approved? 

How long does the approval take

Because I do have lots of sources

Bill Thompson 1913-1971
Voices is "Alice In Wonderland" (1951), "Lady and the Tramp" (1955) and "Sleping Beauty" (1959)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859892/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Thompson_(voice_actor)
http://voicechasers.com/database/showactor.php?actorid=1241
http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/Bill-Thompson/

Is linking with

Bill Thompson
"Full Metal Jacket" (1987), "Magnup PI" (1982), "The Imagemaker" (1986)
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0859895/

Not many sources on him, seems to have not been a very prolific actor.

Ahh cool, thanks

I think I figured it out

There is no cast entry for the Bill Thompson that is not Bill Thompson(1913) so I guess I just add him and replace it in FMJ

If a profile has Bill Thompson (no birth year) and the only Bill Thompson you have is Bill Thompson (1913) these will automatically link together.

To separate them, both Bill Thompson's must have a birth year in your database.

If you have a birth year for the second Bill Thompson, add it to your newly created Bill Thompson.  Then submit the profile you have done this with (such as Full Metal Jacket).

If you do not have a birth year for the second Bill Thompson, give him a fictitious year in your database (I use 10000 to make sure I can immediately tell at a glance that it's not right).  Don't submit this, since it's fiction.

Unfortunately there is no protocol for submission of fictitious birth years to separate people whose birth years are not known, so this all has to be done locally.

Hope this helps!

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If a profile has Bill Thompson (no birth year) and the only Bill Thompson you have is Bill Thompson (1913) these will automatically link together.

To separate them, both Bill Thompson's must have a birth year in your database.

If you have a birth year for the second Bill Thompson, add it to your newly created Bill Thompson.  Then submit the profile you have done this with (such as Full Metal Jacket).

If you do not have a birth year for the second Bill Thompson, give him a fictitious year in your database (I use 10000 to make sure I can immediately tell at a glance that it's not right).  Don't submit this, since it's fiction.

Unfortunately there is no protocol for submission of fictitious birth years to separate people whose birth years are not known, so this all has to be done locally.

Hope this helps!

Yeah it does, but it does not help the integrity of the online database much IMO.  Because it is an unkown BY

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If a profile has Bill Thompson (no birth year) and the only Bill Thompson you have is Bill Thompson (1913) these will automatically link together.

To separate them, both Bill Thompson's must have a birth year in your database.

Are you sure about this?  At the moment, I have two Bruce Campbells in my DB...one with a BY and one without. 

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Yeah it does, but it does not help the integrity of the online database much IMO.  Because it is an unkown BY

That's true enough.  However, there's nothing we can do about it.  I have dozens of fictitious years in my local db, and I think I remember T!M saying he has hundreds.  But the rules require a real BY, so only real BYs may be submitted.

Yep, and we have to do as the rules state.  Because no matter what the rules provide consistancy across the data at the very least, so unless they change we need to abide by them.