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

[Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen]

Frederic Da Vitoria skrev:
>[...], or we need ways to 
>assess the reliability of each piece of information.

Isn't this done by reviewing the edits related to that 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.

It is generally recommended to cite your sources when entering the 
edits. This goes (or should go) for annotations as well.

>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.

Then add the data to the annotation edit as an edit note. And while 
you're at it, please fill in the "description of your changes" so that 
people looking at a long list of annotation edits can get an overview of 
what has happened at a glance, instead of going to review the diff of 
each individual change.

>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...

Eh... wha'? DiscIDs aren't a source in themselves, but a piece of 
information from the source of the originating CD. This CD is the source 
for the track times, and the DiscID addition edit should preferably have 
a note saying where the CD is from, to verify that it's not a homebrew. 
This is not feasible though, but a DiscID in itself isn't a proper 
source, nor is a DiscID with odd or off timings the same as a homebrew 
disc. And if three pressings that are all perfectly legitimate give 
three different times for a track... which one is the correct one? (This 
is going way off-topic though.)

>But the current database design doesn't allow for this for 
>subjects such as release dates or labels.

Sure does: edit notes.

-- 
Sincerely,
Frederik "Freso" S. Olesen <http://freso.dk/>

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