So it's acceptable to have some collateral damage (deleting legitimate disc IDs that were falsely identified as spurious, not caught in the voting process), to achieve the goal of having a cleaner database of disc IDs?
I must admit this doesn't sit well with me. Also, the practice of removing disc IDs en masse (especially via automated scripts) doesn't account for any potential confidence level we can apply to the disc ID, such as who submitted the disc ID (who may be a seasoned autoeditor), how many times it may have been re-added, how many times it was queried for by different users. This last point seems important. If a disc ID is added and never queried for again, and has a 2-second increase on every track, it would seem far more probable that the disc ID is spurious. If the disc ID is added and queried for several times a month, I'd be thinking twice before deleting it, or voting to approve its deletion. Also, I haven't been able to get a sense of how much are these spurious disc IDs are actually impacting normal operation. If a disc ID were being removed to prevent an apparently-spurious home-burnt disc from colliding with a clearly legitimate label release, the decision to delete such entries would be far clearer. -----Original Message----- From: Simon Austin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-to: MusicBrainz style discussion <musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org> To: musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org Subject: Re: [mb-style] Removal of homeburnt discIds Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:41:53 +0000 Uhm, isn't that an example of why it is a good idea to remove the one's that look suspicious? It goes to a vote and then we find out why it's legit. Granted, whoever added it might not stand up for it, but if it's really an extant disc then it should come around again and adding DiscIDs is an auto-edit... - Si: chiark > reopening an older discussion: Edit #9534224 ( > http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=9534224) is a good example why it > might be bad to remove disc IDs that just look suspicious. > > Obviously there are valid disc IDs that have those 2 seconds extra in every > track which some people use to identify home burnt CDs. I'm in favor of > keeping the database clean, but please think twice before going through the > database removing every disc ID that might be home burnt. > _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
