[mb-users] Amazon ASIN url's

[Joan Whittaker]

When I first came to mb, I entered quite a few ASIN's, such as this
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=4217687
only to be told by an automod that it was incorrect.

What was incorrect about it.  Nothing it transpired.  I had chosen as my
local Amazon store the UK one, but because the example shown at that time
(before the changes) said it should be

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/<ASIN>

the automod failed my edits.

This was an example of something being taken far too literally and I think
we are in danger of becoming blinkered in exactly the same way.

Joan


----- Original Message -----
From: "mud crow" <akamudcrow at msn.com>
To: <musicbrainz-users at lists.musicbrainz.org>
Sent: Sunday, October 08, 2006 9:18 AM
Subject: RE: [mb-users] Amazon ASIN url's


>
> 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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