I’d say it’s incomplete rather than outdated.
a-tisket gets its data straight from the iTunes API, so it only shows whatever dates iTunes has. Often times when submitting an album to iTunes, labels will include an album’s original release date (or what they think is the original release date, depending on the age of the album) rather than the date the album was made available through iTunes, which is what we prefer here at MB. iTunes didn’t launch until April 2003, so a release date of November 2002 would not be appropriate for a release imported from iTunes.
For cases like these, I would either check a different source for a more plausible date (e.g. Deezer or Amazon) or just leave the date field blank. (You can do this by typing “0” in the “change date” box.)
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