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| | | Author: | enig  | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2015 18:16 | | Subject: | Fix "year released" attribute for parts | | Viewed: | 93 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| Currently the "year released" attribute for parts is auto-defined and gets the
same release date as the set the part is in.
This results in wrong info, when a freshly released part makes into an older
set and gets added as an alternate.
Here's a situation when it resulted in half a decade worth of error:
The part used to have the release date of 2015, but now has 2010
reason:
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=899967
IF(!) BL would like to have the most accurate LEGO parts catalog on the web,
this must be addressed.
I vote "yes" 
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| | | | | Author: | viejos | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2015 19:30 | | Subject: | Re: Fix "year released" attribute for parts | | Viewed: | 34 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, enig writes:
| | Currently the "year released" attribute for parts is auto-defined and gets the
same release date as the set the part is in.
This results in wrong info, when a freshly released part makes into an older
set and gets added as an alternate.
Here's a situation when it resulted in half a decade worth of error:
The part used to have the release date of 2015, but now has 2010
reason:
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=899967
IF(!) BL would like to have the most accurate LEGO parts catalog on the web,
this must be addressed.
I vote "yes"
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One of the ways I have proposed of addressing this problem is to exclude alternates
from the year of release data, unless there are no occurances as a Regular item.
Otherwise the Dacta sets wreak havoc on the years of release, not only for parts
but for colors sometimes too.
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| | | | | | | Author: | enig | | Posted: | Mar 19, 2015 19:58 | | Subject: | Re: Fix "year released" attribute for parts | | Viewed: | 37 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, viejos writes:
| | In Suggestions, enig writes:
| | Currently the "year released" attribute for parts is auto-defined and gets the
same release date as the set the part is in.
This results in wrong info, when a freshly released part makes into an older
set and gets added as an alternate.
Here's a situation when it resulted in half a decade worth of error:
The part used to have the release date of 2015, but now has 2010
reason:
http://www.bricklink.com/message.asp?ID=899967
IF(!) BL would like to have the most accurate LEGO parts catalog on the web,
this must be addressed.
I vote "yes"
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One of the ways I have proposed of addressing this problem is to exclude alternates
from the year of release data, unless there are no occurances as a Regular item.
Otherwise the Dacta sets wreak havoc on the years of release, not only for parts
but for colors sometimes too.
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Yes, that would be a totally legitimate way of addressing this Actually had
the very same idea in my head.
Sorry if I missed a conversation about this earlier and it has already been suggested.
I am getting a little less opportunities to be active on the forums lately.
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