BYT - G6 - 1968 (sp4cepoopy) v 1998 (Windowabove) - Games

sp4cetiger

permafrost wrote:

wait, why is Discogs considered reliable when RYM isn't? they have the same database building structure. note that I'm not saying that this should have a material consequence for this or future tournaments, just interested in the thought process.

I didn't put a ton of thought into it, but I would trust discogs more on release dates just because it's frequented by people who are going to tend to be more interested in the release details; that is, record collectors.

In retrospect, for the purposes of the tournament, we probably should have just chosen a source and treated it as official. I don't think it's a good use of anyone's time to be digging through four or five sources to try and figure out the truth of the matter. Hindsight is 20/20, though.

Satie

sp4cetiger wrote:

I didn't put a ton of thought into it, but I would trust discogs more on release dates just because it's frequented by people who are going to tend to be more interested in the release details; that is, record collectors.

In retrospect, for the purposes of the tournament, we probably should have just chosen a source and treated it as official. I don't think it's a good use of anyone's time to be digging through four or five sources to try and figure out the truth of the matter. Hindsight is 20/20, though.

yeah, i'm not trying to take a stand or something or suggest this team should be changed for this tournament. i don't know if you saw the edit to my post, and now it's on the previous page, but essentially I just feel like RYM and Wiki, given the site policies of forcing you to cite a source, are more accurate when info is verified than Discogs is. Allmusic is up in the air because they employ "experts," but those "experts" happen to put entirely wrong album artwork or tracklistings on the most egregious examples from time to time, let alone a release date.

sp4cetiger

permafrost wrote:

yeah, i'm not trying to take a stand or something or suggest this team should be changed for this tournament. i don't know if you saw the edit to my post, and now it's on the previous page, but essentially I just feel like RYM and Wiki, given the site policies of forcing you to cite a source, are more accurate when info is verified than Discogs is. Allmusic is up in the air because they employ "experts," but those "experts" happen to put entirely wrong album artwork or tracklistings on the most egregious examples from time to time, let alone a release date.

I'm not sure about music, but when I was doing wikipedia edits of movies, I remember allmovie being considered an acceptable source for release info. Presumably the same is true of allmusic, though I haven't verified that. I have no idea what the standards of evidence for RYM are.

Your argument does seem pretty convincing for this particular case, though.

Saoirse

98 edges it out on albums, more a matter of taste if anything, but just barely. 68 though def wins it out on singles. So don't know to vote for either a team that has my favorite albums but a lot of (moderate) lows in it's second tier or a team that's really strong top to bottom but isn't as personally exciting? I donno. But yes...

Love the Kinks.

Skinny

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Like Saoirse, I prefer '98's albums but '68's singles. Voted 1998, though, largely on account of TNT.
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