[mb-users] Amazon ASIN url's

[mud crow]

I think it's unacceptable behaviour to be voting down valid edits because of 
something the editor has no control over. That's a good way to scare off new 
editors from musicbrainz.
You can't expect an editor to pick apart all these weird amazon urls and 
only enter the valid parts.

This is something that needs to worked out by devs & the style council, not 
by people on a voting crusade to no-vote every edit,

Mud




>From: "Lauri Watts" <krazykiwi at gmail.com>
>Reply-To: General discussions about 
>MusicBrainz<musicbrainz-users at lists.musicbrainz.org>
>To: "General discussions about 
>MusicBrainz"<musicbrainz-users at lists.musicbrainz.org>
>Subject: [mb-users] Amazon ASIN url's
>Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 10:02:22 +0200
>
>Hi,
>
>There is a small argument going on about Amazon URL's, after the
>change Amazon recently made, the wiki was not yet adjusted to
>accomodate: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/AmazonRelationshipType
>
>For those not up to speed, Amazon recently changed their URL's from
>the format http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/<ASIN> or
>http://www.amazon.de/gp/product/<ASIN> to include an abridged version
>of the product title in the url.  The original url's do work, and we
>have no reason to expect they won't continue to.
>
>It's also noted very clearly, and in bold, that the user should not
>edit a url, just copy and paste it.
>
>Since people are now beginning to vote no to edits using the new
>format, this needs to be fixed, one way or another.
>
>We need to decide:
>
>1:  Is it ok to add the URL's with the title information in, in which
>case the wiki needs changing to reflect that this is ok, or
>
>2: is it ok to edit the url, in which case the wiki needs changing and
>very clear and explicit instructions how to perform this need to be
>added.
>
>Example of contentious edit going on right now:
>http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=5729275
>
>The simplest way from an end user's point of view would be to have the
>javascript parser break up the pasted url, any format, and
>reconstitute a corrected URL (it'd be fairly simple to grab just the
>ASIN and the domain out of there).  Given our dearth of developers,
>that's probably not going to happen in a hurry.
>
>I will also note that the wiki doesn't explicitly say that these url's
>are unacceptable and there's been hundreds of them entered in the past
>couple of months.
>
>Regards,
>--
>Lauri Watts
>
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