#musicbrainz

Jormangeud^ is now known as Jormangeud

that's cool Kerensky97

hello warp

time-of-day CatCat

lets be total geeks and talk on irc while we sit next to eachother

very dark here, no?

in the summer its very light :)

loi

lol the cat

ruaok, you about?

sorta.

could you yell at jesus2099 a wee bit :)

whyfor?

copy editing the english in people's discussion comments and personal pages all over the wiki

got example?

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/RecentChanges is full of it

not that he hit me, but, if he does, i'll pour all kinds of vitriol on him

(I know, it's minor, and not really your problem, but a short note from you will certainly be more diplomatic than anything I will come up with :)

why is this a problem? the changes I see are correcting english.

at least the changes are correct, from what I can tell.

the only downside I can really see is that he's spamming the recentchanges as a side-effect.

but perhaps I spot checked the wrong links.

I just find it obnoxious to correct people's comments (in a discussion) and/or personal pages (he edited muz' bio for instance)

I've just seen then -> than

have you mentioned this to him.

and, I think you're going to be safe since your english is good. :)

I don't know how, and he hates me anyway, so it'll be a war

and this is not a war worth fighting is it?

nope

imho, it would be better if you prodded the people in question (e.g. muz) and ask them to ask him to stop editing their person comments/pages.

but this guy... he gets 'an idea' and does hundreds of edits, then posts on the forum asking if it's a good idea :)

not sure he's safe to let loose on the wiki in that manner, is all

short of stepping on people's toes and correcting personal speech, I see his changes as positive overall.

maybe I'm just cranky this morning :)

:-)

it he was causing havoc, I'd say it time to address the issue. but his intentions appear to be good.

and... you really think muz will manage to be more diplomatic than me :)

lolz

ok, perhaps not.

but you get my point about "violated parties" kvetching...

hmm

I just wonder where he gets the time to nitpick little corrections. I've got a backlog of "stacks" of of releases that need to be added to the database but no time.

lol

heh, this is the guy who caused an edit war because I merged Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney with Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson

heh

it's vital to keep them both! because on some songs, MJ sings first! and on others he doesn't!

Most of the edits I've seen him do in Japanese releases is small stuff, but correct.

the reason he gets in trouble is, as i said, he gets 'an idea' and then does 300 edits, and _then_ asks for opinions

I've noticed that too.

by then, a lot of people have their backs up, and object out of principle

if he'd just do one, ask in the note for opinions, he'd probably get 'well, sure' a lot of the time and he could go his merry way

I just no voted him for something like that. He took the (live) part off all the live songs on a mixed release.

He's right that technically it's a "Proposed Guideline" (since 2005) and that they're not on the CD cover. But everywhere else I look people are putting on (live) to live releases as the guideline says so I voted no, unfortunately he's so busy tagging that he's already done alot of edits like that.

heehee, i just noticed he had time to (4 months after I already fixed the name to his satisfaction) annotate the MJ & PM track with who sung first

I should not look at edit histories

on a more useful note: do you think it's ok to put the Vienna Boys Choir sortname into english

we usually only do that for non-latin names, but, well this is classical stuff, i probably shouldn't touch it

other german/austrian artists still have their german sortnames

http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/?artistid=41868 fwiw

I've learned to avoid anything to do with classical. There's enough weird rules to remember with normal Musicbrainz.

Yeah, that's why I'm doubtful

but there's got to be a billion compilation cd's out there with 'Vienna Boys Choir' in english on their covers

ok, I'm going to push the latest changes to the server.

so, be warned a bounce is coming up.

and such people tagging it are probably already turned onto the 'name translation' thing for Tchaikovsky et al

boooooooiiinnnnnnnng!

lauri: I would be confused to have it sorted under V and search under W...

"Vienna Boys Choir goes Pop" by Wiener Sängerknaben, would probably be very odd to many casual users or listeners

then again I'm german ;)

MClemo: heh, that's kind of my point, it's equally as weird for the rest of us to have to go look under W for it :)

ruaok: some bugfixes?

Yeah, I'd have no idea to look there.

lauri: then the artist name would have to change to and that is against guidelines afaik

MClemo: yep. see the bug tracker and the last 5 or so bugs fixed on the 20081123 release

yeah, this is a not fixable one

ruaok: nice :)

Amblin is now known as Guest18430

we still have quite a few bugs to fix... :-(

luckily i have no entire albums by them

doubt i even have any tracks, boy choirs is not precisely my thing

and them covering 'genie in a bottle' and 'my heart will go on' sounds quite terrifying

lol

I have a London Symphony Orchestra disc playing Rolling Stones

that's quite good

I guess it's just one of those weekly merges then :)

MClemo: oh, i have them doing pink floyd, also pretty cool

have to check that out then

they did a whole series of those, i believe

but I can't figure "genie in a bottle" by a boys choir :)

that really sounds terrifying

it gets worse: 'Burning down the house' is also on that album

well heck, see for yourself: http://musicbrainz.org/release/1ffb3673-0296-48...

cheesy

I have Rajaton and Lahti Symphony Orchestra playing Abba. :P

ha, Eternal Flame!

Which is cool. And apparently their Queen record is better.

abba or queen, i can figure out... but could you listen to a boys choir doing either?

actually, that might work better than genie in a bottle

Listening to boys choir in general...

can you hear the drums, Fernando?

"Get Down"? The KC and the sunshine band version?

Vienna Boys Choir Goes Funk

now has a boys choir rendition of 'does your mother know' stuck in my head

see, they grow on you ;)

like a fungus

:D

I hate it when I have a crappy song stuck in my head all day

mclemo: I have a 9 year old

and about 2 months ago, our cable provider kindly gave us disney channel for free

since then, the only things stuck in my head have been by either hannah montana or the jonas brothers

wait a couple of years and you get something different to hear probably

like a boy group or something

if it's a girl

jonas brothers is a boy group :)

don't know them

they should be arrested for crimes against pop music

:D

my older daughter was a pre-teen in the golden age of the spice girls n'sync and backstreet boys, lucky me

oh god

now she listens to jeff buckley, j-pop, trance and way too much kmfdm

weird combination ;)

oh and hans zimmer, she has a total thing for him

hans zimmer is awesome

does anyone know if wildcards should work in the ignore tags list for lastfm genres or folksonomy? like ,the word *,

hey lauri... there is a candy here called "swedish fish".