I saw his death on his page, and there's no way that can be right. I tried removing it, but I got a message saying that it's a required field. Can the mods fix this, or is it a staff thing?
Huh. I tried putting in n/a like it says for other living people (Jeff and Brad both have 'n/a' listed in the death column) but it says to enter a valid date. Maybe once a date is entered it's a required field, so the system won't let you remove it? Sounds like a bug. Or just a prank by the staff.
I've been meaning to run a query to find birth and death dates set in the future. Then I'll send the the list to the staff so they can fix those, and hopefully fix the underlying problem as well.
@LordAndrew: But only for People and not Character pages, right? ;) Also I trust someone will be kind enough to inform John, in case he doesn't check his page in the next 40 years. The More You Know...
@Brackynews: Just people. Since not every game takes place in the present day, it may be perfectly valid for a character to be born on some date in the future.
" @LordAndrew: Wait, that brings up a question: what about games with different date systems? How the hell do we account for those? "
We don't. If there's a different date system we leave it blank. The dates can't be compared to each other, and the software only lets us enter four-digit dates (or two-digit dates that are transformed into four-digit dates).
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