On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 7:32 PM, Brian Schweitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> To only respond to one thing you said: > > > No. We apply the usual standard of MB editing, and _fix it_. If you > > (the generic you) know the album is valid and you can't be arsed > > fixing it yourself, you have no business voting no on it. > > I have to disagree. If something is added with incomplete titles, no > attention to the style guidelines, etc, it is the responsibility of > the editor who added that release to fix it, else have it voted down. > It is not the responsibility of the voters to clean up serious missing > information and style issues in release adds. I'm not saying we vote > something out because it has some bad capitalization. I've seen exactly that happen. I voted yes on an album addition _yesterday_ that had a no vote on a style issue, and would have otherwise failed.' > But you seem to > forget - if no one votes no on that add edit with just tempos, and no > one fixes it, it expires in and defacto becomes part of the database. > We have plenty enough "not even basic info" classical release listings > like that in the database already, thank you very much. I prefer to fix them and explain why. I think voting no without doing so is elitist and unfair, especially when said no votes are not even accompanied with a comment. It's a bully tactic, and has no place here. -- Lauri Watts _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
