Hi! This is a copy of a post I made to the Users list; I got only an answer there, perhaps here I'll be more successful:
I just came upon a couple of mod-sprees adding lots of "fan-site" ARs to a single artist. Links: http://musicbrainz.org/mod/search/results.html?artist_id=34&artist_type=3&minid=4665006&maxid=4665328 and http://musicbrainz.org/mod/search/results.html?artist_id=11650&artist_type=3&minid=4665403&maxid=4668213 I don't remember ever seeing anything about this in the guidelines, but it does seem excessive. Previous mods/votes I've seen seemed to reach a consensus of "just a couple" chosen by the rather vague criteria of "beeing well done" (I use "preety" and "informative"), and sometimes (for wikipedia) just English and $artistLanguage. On the mods I linked above I see there are already many yes votes (though by a couple of guys only), so it seems the consensus is not very wide-reaching. We should figure out what to do for such cases and spell it out clearly in the guidelines and the AR description. (Note that I don't take any position very tightly here; there are probably thousands of sites for some known artists; I'm not on principle against adding all of them, but: (1) it's going to be hell to keep count of dead links and such; (2) the UI for that will probably need to Google-size intelligence; (3) looking at a 100 links long list (or even a dozen) is pretty useless for the users, and they'll go to Google anyway. On the other hand, figuring out a couple of reasonable rules is going to be tricky, but is both doable and useful.) -- Bogdan Butnaru — [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I think I am a fallen star, I should wish on myself." – O. _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
