not that he hit me, but, if he does, i'll pour all kinds of vitriol on him
2008-12-01 33658, 2008
lauri
(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 :)
2008-12-01 33635, 2008
ruaok
why is this a problem? the changes I see are correcting english.
2008-12-01 33645, 2008
ruaok
at least the changes are correct, from what I can tell.
2008-12-01 33634, 2008
ruaok
the only downside I can really see is that he's spamming the recentchanges as a side-effect.
2008-12-01 33643, 2008
ruaok
but perhaps I spot checked the wrong links.
2008-12-01 33650, 2008
lauri
I just find it obnoxious to correct people's comments (in a discussion) and/or personal pages (he edited muz' bio for instance)
2008-12-01 33654, 2008
ruaok
I've just seen then -> than
2008-12-01 33616, 2008
ruaok
have you mentioned this to him.
2008-12-01 33626, 2008
ruaok
and, I think you're going to be safe since your english is good. :)
2008-12-01 33630, 2008
lauri
I don't know how, and he hates me anyway, so it'll be a war
2008-12-01 33650, 2008
ruaok
and this is not a war worth fighting is it?
2008-12-01 33653, 2008
lauri
nope
2008-12-01 33632, 2008
ruaok
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.
2008-12-01 33637, 2008
lauri
but this guy... he gets 'an idea' and does hundreds of edits, then posts on the forum asking if it's a good idea :)
2008-12-01 33610, 2008
lauri
not sure he's safe to let loose on the wiki in that manner, is all
2008-12-01 33644, 2008
ruaok
short of stepping on people's toes and correcting personal speech, I see his changes as positive overall.
2008-12-01 33609, 2008
lauri
maybe I'm just cranky this morning :)
2008-12-01 33640, 2008
ruaok
:-)
2008-12-01 33600, 2008
ruaok
it he was causing havoc, I'd say it time to address the issue. but his intentions appear to be good.
2008-12-01 33602, 2008
lauri
and... you really think muz will manage to be more diplomatic than me :)
2008-12-01 33618, 2008
ruaok
lolz
2008-12-01 33621, 2008
ruaok
ok, perhaps not.
2008-12-01 33644, 2008
ruaok
but you get my point about "violated parties" kvetching...
2008-12-01 33612, 2008
alastairp
hmm
2008-12-01 33609, 2008
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2008-12-01 33612, 2008
Kerensky98
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.
2008-12-01 33625, 2008
ruaok
lol
2008-12-01 33601, 2008
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2008-12-01 33615, 2008
lauri
heh, this is the guy who caused an edit war because I merged Michael Jackson & Paul McCartney with Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
2008-12-01 33648, 2008
alastairp
heh
2008-12-01 33601, 2008
lauri
it's vital to keep them both! because on some songs, MJ sings first! and on others he doesn't!
2008-12-01 33627, 2008
Kerensky98
Most of the edits I've seen him do in Japanese releases is small stuff, but correct.
2008-12-01 33650, 2008
lauri
the reason he gets in trouble is, as i said, he gets 'an idea' and then does 300 edits, and _then_ asks for opinions
2008-12-01 33615, 2008
Kerensky98
I've noticed that too.
2008-12-01 33647, 2008
lauri
by then, a lot of people have their backs up, and object out of principle
2008-12-01 33616, 2008
lauri
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
2008-12-01 33658, 2008
Kerensky98
I just no voted him for something like that. He took the (live) part off all the live songs on a mixed release.
2008-12-01 33605, 2008
Kerensky98
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.
2008-12-01 33634, 2008
lauri
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
2008-12-01 33639, 2008
lauri
I should not look at edit histories
2008-12-01 33631, 2008
lauri
on a more useful note: do you think it's ok to put the Vienna Boys Choir sortname into english
2008-12-01 33654, 2008
lauri
we usually only do that for non-latin names, but, well this is classical stuff, i probably shouldn't touch it
2008-12-01 33600, 2008
MClemo
other german/austrian artists still have their german sortnames
