Discogs Guideline Review 2009-Second Round

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Carried on from Discogs_Guideline_Review_2009

1 Current Outstanding Guideline Issues / Todo
2 In Progress
- 2.1 11. Tracklisting (inc all tracklisting field rules)

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Current Outstanding Guideline Issues / Todo

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1. General Guidelines

Explain when packaging (or lack of packaging) can denote a unique release http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/172373 http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/178660

Explain requirements for sample and loop CDs http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/192297

Remove some required credits http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/195752#2476951

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2. Artist (inc ANV and joins)

Join field + colabs - rewording proposal at http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/189303#2384328 . This incorporates or attempts to address the following:
- Solve or explain the joined / separated artist name problem - Why is Simon And Garfunkel joined? When should this rule be followed?
- Should there be an automatic separator used for the join field? ATM it defaults to no separator, but this is usually (always?) not applicable. http://www.discogs.com/help/submission-guidelines-release-artist.html#Adding_Artists "a comma between them if there is no joiner on the release itself.". mjb I believe suggested that the slash (/) seems to be a good default, but pipes and commas are also a possibility. nik - let's go with a comma, it's less visually distracting for me and strikes me as less 'loaded'.
- Make clarifications under "The Join Field and Artist Collaboration" section that collaborating artists must be distinct. So, (artist X) Presents (alias of artist X) is not considered a collaboration; it must always be split. This topic was raised in discussion at http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/186422 and the proposed guideline change is at http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/186638

Define PAN, choosing PAN, and when not to swap things about http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/193062?page=2#2433629

Define a little better when 'Various' should be used http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/194464

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3. Title

How to title split releases without a given title. - No Title (Split)?

Update to disambiguated titles as per http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/183321#2322368 ?

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4. Label / Catalog Number

Explain how to differentiate between a new label, and a series on an existing label

To discuss - can we simplify the guideline regarding unique cat#s and shadow cat#s - is this something we expect the average submitter to know / learn / understand / apply?

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5. Format

Add definition of 'compilation' for use of this tag http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/192194

Expand definition for 'Promo' - http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/199169#2490798

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8. Genres / Styles

Why are styles required for the electronic genre and not for the rest? Proposal - remove this requirement or even extend it to the other genres. - needs to be coded

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9. Credits

Need to work on the page indexing! "Indexed credit roles (ie. Producer, Mixed By) that entered in the same field with other multiple roles, are not indexed into their proper section on the artist page." http://www.discogs.com/help/forums/topic/156801#2026541 - this is something for the artist page reorg