[mb-users] Guess I'll boycott adding release events

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Fred Marchee <fred at intercookie.com> wrote:

> You can always enter your release information in an annotation, someday
> a "releasedateguru" will turn up and recognize your data and put it in
> the right order.
>
> Adding this data can be very hard, especially with older releases but
> please don't stop entering your knowledge, even when it looks silly in
> an annotation.
>

IMO the problem here is that NO source is entirely reliable. even majors'
websites may be mistaken. So thinking "It's unreliable, so why bother
entering it" is quite understandable. Either we accept that MB data is
unreliable (which is not the current trend), or we need ways to assess the
reliability of each piece of information. If we want to really be reliable,
we'll have to include a way of citing sources, something more reliable :-)
than annotations. If I added all the information I found when I happened to
do some research for release dates (for example), the annotations would
become unreadable.

Each piece of information should be accompanied with it's sources so that
any user could check how reliable the information is. This is more or less
what happens for track listings: by looking at Disc IDs, one can check the
timings, if there are 2 or 3 Disc IDs, one can even detect homebrews... But
the current database design doesn't allow for this for subjects such as
release dates or labels.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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