Maybe some kind of input constraint/check on dates would be helpful on the UI or at least db level?
If you want to help by finding and fixing these take a look at the following report:
https://musicbrainz.org/report/ReleasedTooEarly
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Good news: We have that now! 
If you enter just 199 now (which I assume is what happened here) you get the error:
The year should have four digits. If you want to enter a year earlier than 1000 CE, please pad with zeros, such as “0123”.
Sadly, this was added in 2018, when this didn’t yet exist, so, yeah, we get to fix it.
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nice! I wonder what happened with this one, on closer inspection the last letter of the title is cut as well, maybe related?
there’s a “that’s what she said” joke in there somewhere, I’m sure of it 
thx for the useful link!
I’m actually impressed there’s only about 5000 of those