Quoting Gerri Cole:

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The birth year will be accepted to differentiate between a cast and crew member.

So yeah, we indeed do use birth years to differentiate between cast and crew members. Off-topic: I can only hope this implies that at some point, the program will be able to show me both the cast and crew credits of a certain person.

Personally, I'll probably never search cast and crew credits for the same person, as I do not see the interest for that. When Eastwood acts as an actor, he doesn't perform the same job as when he acts as a director. So the program as it is now fits perfectly my needs. That is why BYs to differentiate an actor and a crew with the same name are a loss of time, for me, and complicate without any usefulness the list of accepted BY. There are so many actors with same name that have no accepted BY that we have to solve this problem before mixing cast and crew.  We have reached a point where importing headshots databases without BY  is a nightmare, so we should not loose time for cast/crew BYs.