Release year changed on TV-series automatically to faulty year

This is regarding this TV series:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260597/?ref_=ttep_ep_tt

As the summary on the page says it started in 1999, it had however no episodes added.

I added some episodes with data saying it is the 20th season, but still the release year have now changed to 2018.

This must be a fault in the programming? Because if not you have to either ad no episodes or absolutely everyone.

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Kristin

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Posted 2 years ago

2 years ago

GMJ, Champion

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Kristin,

It would appear that there is a display error.

If the show's premiere date known, one possible suggestion would be to submit a season 1 episode (1.1) with the specific release date and year.

For now, please wait for an IMDb representative to respond.

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2 years ago

Will, Official Rep

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Hi Kristin,

Thank you for reporting, I've now changed the series page back to 1999. GMJ is correct, as there are no episodes preceding the 20th season this has submitted a change to the title year. If you submit an episode with the earliest release date this will help to prevent this from happening again.

Regards,
Will

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2018-10-03T21:38:57+00:00

Kristin

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Hello. And thaks Will :-) I noticed this by chance that the year had changed. I did not create the original page for the series, just adding one episode. I did not get any warning that what I did would mean the "start" year would change. So it was not logical to me that that would happen.
And probably not logical to others either (unless very experienced.)
Would it not be a god idea to either:
1. Give a warning when submitting an episode that it will change the release year?
2. Or better yet not change a release year forward in time unless you add an episode which is number 1.1.? Change the year backwards in time if an earlier episode is added makes sense but not forward in time.