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

[Frederik 'Freso' S. Olesen]

Fred Marchee skrev:
>We always want to have proof in Musicbrainz and think that a website is 
>more reliable the "common knowledge"

I'm not part of that "we" either. I'd definitely take what e.g. Alan 
Klitgaard has to say about folk music over what's written in any book 
any day.

>Don't forget that there are a lot 
>of books written about artists with years of research behind them. I 
>can't link back to these books because they are not on the internet....

Sure you can. "Lastname, Firstname: Title of book (Publisher, year, 
ISBN, ...)" Common citation works fine. (Most books are linkable these 
days though. And ISBNs have several databases one could easily link to.)

>so my source are not reliable but a vague fan site is! It is on the 
>internet so it's true! [...]

I can't think of any editor of MusicBrainz I've talked with that holds 
this view.

>Do you ask a doctor about his sources or do you 
>trust his knowledge?

I often find myself asking my doctor how and why he's doing something, 
and occasionally reads up on the subject myself.

>Guys like the two above love annotations, they recognize it as an 
>attempt to their card system and instantly want to correct it when the 
>information is wrong, they don't know about computers but they 
>understand "edit annotation" and perhaps even try to enter data.

Which would be great. People can always take out information from the 
annotation and place it in its proper place.

>If you don't know something for sure, it's your own knowledge or non 
>linkable, please put it in an annotation

If you definitely know it, even if you can't produce a source. Add it in 
its proper place if you know how to, and mention that it's something you 
just know in the edit note. Other people might then either take you on 
your word, or look the information up themselves.

>or put it on the corresponding 
>Wikipedia page,

Putting it on Wikipedia wouldn't help MusicBrainz... ? Also, why do you 
think you need less of a source on Wikipedia than you do for MusicBrainz?

>put it in a note but NEVER, EVER let your knowledge just 
>fly away because there is no right box for it.

I agree with that point though.

>ps. Browsing through the mailing list I notice that our real life names 
>are mostly used, can we do a consensus thingy on signing, also, with our 
>usernames? [...]

My username is Freso, and it is a part of both the "From"-field and in 
the signature. (BTW, a signature in Usenet and e-mail terms, starts with 
"-- " and a line break. This tells (proper) e-mail clients to leave this 
bit out of replies.)

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

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