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Re: Updating Countries

Patman360 — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:20:31 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 08/22/2013 20:20

Whatever you think the best option is, you're the guy in charge around here. It won't bother me if the album/artist need to be deleted. I added the album to a custom world chart I'm creating at the moment and it was more than likely going to be added to my year chart in time, I didn't realise Palestine was not an option until after I had added the album.

Re: Updating Countries

albummaster — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:54:30 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 08/22/2013 19:54

tbh, on further thought, there remains an issue over which nationality to assign this artist, and we have to flag his nationality as something, so maybe for this particular country we could make an exception and add Palestine to the list (e.g. flagging this artist as from another country, or keeping as 'unknown', would be incorrect) and the database needs to be maintained as accurately as we can within the parameters we are operating under.

Re: Updating Countries

Patman360 — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 15:14:36 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 08/22/2013 19:14

Thanks for clearing things up. I wouldn't be very political at all to be honest, so I'm not overly clear on the whole Palestine issue, though I know it's a debatable area. Just thought I'd throw the suggestion out there as the artist I added considers himself to be Palestinian.

Re: Updating Countries

albummaster — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 14:45:00 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 08/22/2013 18:45

I'm a very non-political person & I'm not sure how to to avoid turning this into a politics thread! Some previous debates on the country list: here and here. The key point in previous debates from a BEA perspective was where to stop, because once you add one maybe contentious entry, the flood gates open for all of the others, and then you end up with something less than useful & no clear boundaries.

Just reading a few other articles you get into all sorts of issues that don't make this a clear-cut issue. On the other hand, we do have the Vatican City listed on BEA (established as an independent state by the Lateran Treaty), which is a similar status to Palestine but it's globally recognised as an independent state, which Palestine isn't (for reasons that it's not my place to get into).

Re: Updating Countries

TracyJacks — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:14:39 GMT

Author: TracyJacks

Posted: 08/22/2013 13:14

Patman360 wrote:

Bumping this thread because I added an album by an artist from Palestine earlier, yet Palestine doesn't appear to be an option. I personally think Palestine should be added to the database as it's own state, but what do others think?

If the Pitcairn Islands are added, then Palestine should also be added to the database.

Re: Updating Countries

meccalecca — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:45:39 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 08/21/2013 14:45

bongritsu wrote:

It's times like this I miss NAPELS

:(

Best countries: America, USA

Re: Updating Countries

bongritsu — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:40:24 GMT

Author: bongritsu

Posted: 08/21/2013 14:40

It's times like this I miss NAPELS

🙁

Re: Updating Countries

Patman360 — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 10:33:14 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 08/21/2013 14:33

meccalecca wrote:

technically, I don't believe Palestine is considered a country. But I have no quarrel with it being added to the database considering its situation.

Agreed, Palestine isn't technically considered it's own independent country, yet I believe Palestine deserves to be in the database considering there are other places already in the database that aren't technically countries, such as the Pitcairn Islands, which has a reported population of under 100 and is just a British Overseas Territory.

Re: Updating Countries

meccalecca — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 09:54:09 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 08/21/2013 13:54

Patman360 wrote:

technically, I don't believe Palestine is considered a country. But I have no quarrel with it being added to the database considering its situation.

Re: Updating Countries

Patman360 — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 06:26:03 GMT

Author: Patman360

Posted: 08/21/2013 10:26

Bumping this thread because I added an album by an artist from Palestine earlier, yet Palestine doesn't appear to be an option. I personally think Palestine should be added to the database as it's own state, but what do others think?

Re: Updating Countries

albummaster — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 03:28:56 GMT

Author: albummaster

Posted: 06/28/2013 07:28

Thanks for reporting. I've just updated the country list so that Serbia & Montenegro are now separate (also kept the joint country in the list until I've migrated any bands across to the respective individual countries.).

Updating Countries

Jasonconfused — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 10:59:11 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 06/27/2013 14:59

I added an album by a Serbian artist and when I chose the country for the album I had to choose Serbia and Montenegro. Just suggesting that maybe we should do a quick update of the countries since Serbia and Montenegro ceased to exist in 2006. Serbia and Montenegro are now separate.