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Misuse of the vintage area?

Here’s three examples of what I mean, and I’m sure there are more:

Ah! My Goddess TV
He is my Master
Hellsing

For a TV series, the vintage should be expressed as a start date and end date, but you may enter only the start date if the series has not finished airing yet. You can enter start and end dates for a non-Japanese broadcast by specifying the name of the country as a comment.

Since OAVs are defined as direct-to-video releases, ideally a vintage should be entered for each of the original volumes with a comment to say which volume it was. In the more likely case that not all the release dates are known, a single date or start+end dates are ok too.

For a movie, the vintage is when the movie finished production. This date is not often known; rather, what we usually know is the Premiere date, which should not be entered as vintage. For example, Millennium Actress premiered on 2001-07-28 but the only reason we known the vintage is 2001-01-23 is because the director wrote when the production finished on his website.

For TV specials, the only possible vintage is the date when the special first aired.

For manga, the vintage works like TV series; start+end dates for when the publication of the manga started and ended. In Japan, this is usually the start and end of the serialization in Shonen Jump or other magazines.

Also, even if R2 DVD releases are allowed under vintage, someone has submitted the USA DVD release dates under vintage for:
Hellsing
Elfen Lied
Fullmetal Alchemist
Getbackers
Gunslinger Girl
Hanaukyo Maid Team: La Verite
Inuyasha
Kino no Tabi
Abenobashi Mahou Shotengai
Risky Safety
Paranoia Agent
Onegai! Teacher
Onegai! Twins
R.O.D. The TV
SaiKano
Samurai Champloo
Sugar: A Little Snow Fairy
Gokusen
Trigun
and
Wolf's Rain
even though that information is already in the release section a little lower on the page. This information does not need to be listed on the page twice, in both the releases and vintage areas, mere inches from each other.

Well, according to tempest, these information are acceptable under current site design, just don't submit North American releases, which are handled by the Releases list.

Vintage information is to be entered to tell when an anime starts and ends it’s TV airing, when a volume of an OVA is released, and other information along these lines, correct?

Well, lately people have been entering the dates for every single R2 (and in some cases, R1) DVD release of a series. This may not be too big of a deal for shorter series, but if someone got really ambitious and entered each release for a longer series like Naruto or Inuyasha, those encyclopedia entries would look really ridiculous and cluttered. Maybe some kind of note should be made on the page a user is lead to when they try to submit vintage information not to enter things like DVD release dates for non OVA series. Here’s three examples of what I mean, and I’m sure there are more:

Ah! My Goddess TV
He is my Master
Hellsing