[mb-style] RFC: Change Default Data Quality

[Kuno Woudt]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2007 at 10:56:01AM +0200, Lauri Watts wrote:
> >> Me: "Please provide a verification url, and please use guess case.  
> >Please
> >also set the script on your add edits."
> >
> >You know you won't be able to write this on each new release edit. The
> >problem is many edits pass without anyone questioning them.
> 
> As long as these things are easily fixable and most importantly
> optional, I find it very rude to demand every single user to do them
> (ditto adding dates and catalog numbers).  It wouldn't kill anyone to
> fix them directly, say what you've done, and ask people to try to
> remember them for next time - and to do it politely.

This is a community, some editors will do that yes, some have -- in
their opinion -- better things to do and will leave just a quick note.

I think both approaches are perfectly fine, and the quoted message
quite polite.  To me, your suggestion (quoted below) seems overly 
cautious and slightly condescending.

> I would very much like to see such notes phrased much more politely,
> and if that means editing them to the situation, so be it.  "It's very
> helpful for us to have some kind of URL to crosscheck this information
> against, because typing errors creep up on the best of us and it gives
> us something to check back against later.  Also I've corrected the
> track titles (you can use the guess case tool to help you do this
> yourself next time) and set the script (English is always Latin
> script).  Thank you for participating, and welcome to Musicbrainz!"
 
> Edit messages don't need to sound like a cranky old schoolteacher
> cracking a beginning editor over the knuckles with a wooden ruler.  So
> that example is probably a bit long, but I know which one I would
> rather get, if I was a beginner and unsure of what I was doing.

I'd prefer the other one.  Every editor is different :)

-- kuno.