Talk:DiscogsGlossary
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Thanks for getting this underway.
I think this will eliminate a great deal of confusion, both among moderators and among submitters and users.
I've noticed that a lot of time is spent in the forums discussing terms and their interpretations. I think this is only valuable to a certain point, and then it almost becomes a discussion about the discussion. After that point, I think that certain troublemakers (for lack of a better word) use these discussions/ruminations to their own ends, baiting the mods and using ruminations as "evidence" of confusion among the mods and claiming that this is proof that the site is going to hell.
A couple points about the glossary in general:
I think that any submitter should have a box to check before their first submission indicating that they have read the RSG and this glossary. That will eliminate all those "nobody told me" arguments ... or at least, the obligation to respond in detail to those arguments.
I also think it should be available as a pop-up or a link or something, so that the casual user led here by Google won't have to hunt for info.
I think the glossary should state that the glossary and/or stylesheet (eg first letter in caps) will guide decisions - if you want to make a suggestion to alter it, fine, but don't try to go around it. In other words, "this is how we do things here."
Hey, thanks! I would like to get this into the guidelines ASAp, do you think it is complete as is? Anyone got any other things to add? Cheers! --WikiAdmin 10:14, 6 March 2007 (PST)
I have some more stuff to throw in, basically by way of fine-tuning the above, but lets get some more input. I'm trying to come up with a succinct way of cutting off debate over non-issues like capitalization and it'd be great if others could indicate what they have come across in terms of time-consuming and mostly useless (has any exchange with any user led to discontinuing capitalization of first letters?) discussions.
I think we should have 2 (or more) different Glossaries. What is here now covers terms that are specific to Discogs, and the various "Ogging" processes. There is a definite need for a glossary of terms that describe parts of a release (Matrix, Run-out, Gatefold, Hub, etc.) to reduce confusion when discussing media and packaging.
