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Jimmy Dread

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Welcome to BEA pal.

I reckon you're right with that album being 2009. Chances are the original Canadian CD had 2008 written on it somewhere (likely phonographic copyright - the little p symbol in a circle that you see on virtually all CDs/LPs) and whoever put the info on Discogs took this to mean the release date. I'll change it. AM's done it already...!
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Jimmy Dread wrote:

Welcome to BEA pal.

I reckon you're right with that album being 2009. Chances are the original Canadian CD had 2008 written on it somewhere (likely phonographic copyright - the little p symbol in a circle that you see on virtually all CDs/LPs) and whoever put the info on Discogs took this to mean the release date. I'll change it. AM's done it already...!

Cheers Jimmy!
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Penguin

I have stumbled across another issue I could do with some guidance on please.

I'd like to add some albums by Enation. Except their recent releases have been under the name "Jonathan Jackson + Enation" despite it being exactly the same band line-up as far as I am aware. (It is my understanding Jonathan Jackson was always part of the band and they have just added his name to benefit from his recent exposure on a TV show.)

Should I add the artist simply as "Enation" and then add all the albums (whether they state "Enation" or "Jonathan Jackson + Enation" on the cover) or should I set it up as two separate artists?

Personally I favour the former - better to have everything just as "Enation" (especially as they may go back to just "Enation" at some point) but I will await advice on how this has been handled before on BEA...
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Penguin wrote:

I have stumbled across another issue I could do with some guidance on please.

I'd like to add some albums by Enation. Except their recent releases have been under the name "Jonathan Jackson + Enation" despite it being exactly the same band line-up as far as I am aware. (It is my understanding Jonathan Jackson was always part of the band and they have just added his name to benefit from his recent exposure on a TV show.)

Should I add the artist simply as "Enation" and then add all the albums (whether they state "Enation" or "Jonathan Jackson + Enation" on the cover) or should I set it up as two separate artists?

Personally I favour the former - better to have everything just as "Enation" (especially as they may go back to just "Enation" at some point) but I will await advice on how this has been handled before on BEA...

It's best to use the name that the album was released as e.g. Jonathan Jackson + Enation so that the listing is factually correct (i.e. create two separate artists). The two artists can then be aliased together so that both artist's albums can be viewed together from a single page.

Penguin

albummaster wrote:

Penguin wrote:

I have stumbled across another issue I could do with some guidance on please.

I'd like to add some albums by Enation. Except their recent releases have been under the name "Jonathan Jackson + Enation" despite it being exactly the same band line-up as far as I am aware. (It is my understanding Jonathan Jackson was always part of the band and they have just added his name to benefit from his recent exposure on a TV show.)

Should I add the artist simply as "Enation" and then add all the albums (whether they state "Enation" or "Jonathan Jackson + Enation" on the cover) or should I set it up as two separate artists?

Personally I favour the former - better to have everything just as "Enation" (especially as they may go back to just "Enation" at some point) but I will await advice on how this has been handled before on BEA...

It's best to use the name that the album was released as e.g. Jonathan Jackson + Enation so that the listing is factually correct (i.e. create two separate artists). The two artists can then be aliased together so that both artist's albums can be viewed together from a single page.

Ok, I'll do that. How do you alias the two artists together? Or is that something just you (or other admins) can do?
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albummaster

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You are able to report parent artists as data corrections in a similar way to other types of correction. Once you've gained enough mod points (by performing edits etc), additional moderation abilities become available. Certain types of edit are only able to be carried out by myself at the moment (e.g. database deletions), but the system is going to be extended to enable other moderators to perform even more edits once the site redesign is completed.

Penguin

albummaster wrote:

You are able to report parent artists as data corrections in a similar way to other types of correction. Once you've gained enough mod points (by performing edits etc), additional moderation abilities become available. Certain types of edit are only able to be carried out by myself at the moment (e.g. database deletions), but the system is going to be extended to enable other moderators to perform even more edits once the site redesign is completed.

Thanks AM.
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Will58

Hi Penguin - two questions:
1, how did you get to Level 4 in 56 days!!?!?
2, why no charts we can look at?