+1 even though the edit you link to seems valid as per those reasons.
Perhaps it could be clarified that even some incorrect information doesn't
invalidate the connection from MBz to Amazon; Amazon probably isn't batting
.300 on older releases that they didn't have on day 1.

On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 10:40 AM, jesus2099 <[email protected]>wrote:

> Current :
> «
> This link type is used for Amazon ASINs. This allows users to link to the
> Amazon pages to show the right cover art if MusicBrainz does not have the
> right ASIN link already.
>
>  Paste any URL to any Amazon product page that contains an Amazon ASIN and
> the ASIN will be parsed from that URL.
> »
>
> New :
> «
> This link type is used for Amazon ASINs. This allows users to link to the
> Amazon pages to show the right cover art if MusicBrainz does not have the
> right ASIN link already.
>
>  Paste any URL to any Amazon product page that contains an Amazon ASIN and
> the ASIN will be parsed from that URL.
>
> Don’t add an ASIN that does not match the MB release on its important data
> (track list, release date, medium count, visual aspect, no cover art, etc.)
> »
>
> This would avoid keeping crap like http://musicbrainz.org/edit/18560654(no
> picture + wrong release date ASIN removal), failed, that will lead some
> editors to “FIX” MB’s release date into some shit or other problems.
>
> Now we have CAA to not bother about half-clumsy / half-wrong ASIN of this
> kind.
>
>
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