[mb-style] RFC: Change Default Data Quality

[Lauri Watts]

On 7/2/07, Arturus Magi <sailorleo at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is not a clear cut as it would seem.  I run into English/Katakana
> quite regularly, and I've seen English/Cyrillic a few times too (and
> in fact, there is one entry in the database of English/Cyrillic with
> English/Latin-that's-really-Cyrillic-in-a-different-character-set as a
> 'transliteration' {which can't really be called transliteration, as
> it's still the same script}).
>

Those are certainly corner cases though (and can english
transliterated into katakana really still be called English?.
English/Cyrillic I can see, but English/Latin-that-is-misencoded
Cyrillic sounds bizarre, but I suppose technically still Latin (if
that misencoding 's intentional). Nothing an 'almost' in the sentence
wouldn't have fixed though.

Anyway, the note I tossed off on the fly wasn't the point (although of
course it would be the bit that gets seized on)

There seems to be people expecting that everything should be perfect,
immediately, before it is acceptable to the datbase, and no album
should ever need any further editing ever again.  That's not what MB
is about.  And we shouldn't make people feel like they are doing
something wrong because they can't live up to those standards on their
first few tries at contributing (we are not just editing, or voting...
people are _contributing_, and this is a community.  I think we need
to remember that more often, and be more encouraging, and embrace
newcomers.

-- 
Lauri Watts