Just noticed this too. A nice addition IMO. 

If there's uncredited cast in a profile I reaudit, I go to the contribution info from the ohter contributor and see if they've given a source for them. If not, and I don't find any good source either, I remove them stating that there are currently no sources for these cast members.

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If there's uncredited cast in a profile I reaudit, I go to the contribution info from the ohter contributor and see if they've given a source for them. If not, and I don't find any good source either, I remove them stating that there are currently no sources for these cast members.

This is what I have been tempted to do many times, but since many contributions can be from the times when there were no contribution notes required, I have been hesitant to remove them just in case somebody really did get confirmation somehow.

It often depends on the age of the title. '000s of titles were grandfathered in from the pre Invelos days without any new conribution notes to go with them. Now some could be bad some could be good but not a good idea to throw the baby out with the bath water. I thought the guidance was to remove if they were an exact match for IMDB and there was no other way of verifying... Here you go

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I'll reiterate it here - if the source of the data is not immediately evident, there's no reason to remove uncredited entries.  However, if (for instance), the data is a carbon copy of IMDB or any other third party database, that is enough reason to remove it.  When removing it, be specific in your contribution notes so we don't pass it over.

If it's a carbon copy of IMDB and there are no earlier notes then the current position is that you can remove it.

All changes to cast and crew require entries in the notes justifying them. If you remove cast and crew then your notes should justify it, "there are uncredited entries and I haven't made any effort to verify their presence so I am removing them" is no justification. "The uncredited entries are a complete carbon copy of the IMDB and there are no notes justifying their presence" is a justification. But carbon copy means identical. If they are almost identical it tends to indicate that at some point they have been checked and corrected prior to notes with intial contributions or under version 2

If I get one of these either on an audit or voting I can usually find the uncredited if I look hard enough. There is no requirement to remove them. If you don't like them then it's easy to remove them from your local. If you are worried it is bad data then please try to find out if it is before removing them because removing good data is also a bad thing, and some uncredited entries are real gems. In older films only the studio actors tended to get a credit so even some speaking roles would go uncredited and cameos are often film legend. The roles for uncredited tend to make it easy to find them if one takes the time.

I recently removed almost all the uncredited cast in my edition of The Producers (1968).  It was a total IMDB clone, which I could tell because of the inclusion of someone named Michael Davis.  IMDB lists that uncredited appearance as his only film.  So how can you recognize someone if their only film is one uncredited appearance?  But I kept the one guy I could recognize, and provided the time stamp for him.

It was accepted, so its definitely possible to get uncredited removed, even in R1. 

Well, Michael Davis certainly wasn't in The Producers, even if Michael Davis might have been. 

The problem with Michael Davis is that there are like 11 of them just in our database, none of which seem to have birth years attached, since the one in the producers linked up with the trombone player I have other credits for.  And the trombone player definitely isn't in the movie.

If the site you linked me to had a picture of that one, I'd try to identify him and then put him back in if that was the case.

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It often depends on the age of the title. '000s of titles were grandfathered in from the pre Invelos days without any new conribution notes to go with them. Now some could be bad some could be good but not a good idea to throw the baby out with the bath water. I thought the guidance was to remove if they were an exact match for IMDB and there was no other way of verifying... Here you go

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I'll reiterate it here - if the source of the data is not immediately evident, there's no reason to remove uncredited entries.  However, if (for instance), the data is a carbon copy of IMDB or any other third party database, that is enough reason to remove it.  When removing it, be specific in your contribution notes so we don't pass it over.

That is IMO a good guidance, and I definitely wasn't considering blindly removing all uncredited cast if there were no verification provided in the previous contribution notes. If those are entered the way they are on IMDb, don't have previous verification in contribution notes, and I can't verify them being there myself, then it's a different matter.