oh. I see the reasoning in those comments, but do we really want all the random names asian artists use during their career? I mean, searching for single letter artists will be a huge pain with all the disambiguations
2015-02-16 04747, 2015
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2015-02-16 04718, 2015
nikki
apparently some people would apparently prefer that, yes
2015-02-16 04722, 2015
nikki
...
2015-02-16 04735, 2015
nikki
one day I'm gonna learn to put words like apparently and anyway in a sentence only once
2015-02-16 04707, 2015
nikki
anyway, the ticket has a lot of votes, so maybe it'll end up being done eventually
2015-02-16 04708, 2015
nikki
maybe not
2015-02-16 04743, 2015
Nyanko-sensei
I guess I'll continue adding new entries for them
2015-02-16 04719, 2015
Freso
I feel like more people want 7489 than don't.
2015-02-16 04739, 2015
Freso
But I may be biased since I'm in the former group. :)
2015-02-16 04701, 2015
nikki
most of the arguments against it that I've seen have made no sense to me
2015-02-16 04747, 2015
nikki
the only point I've seen being made that does make sense is that different releases/sources might credit the artist differently and then you have to pick a version to use... but unless we can magically force people to always credit the legal name (good luck with that), that's going to be a problem whether the names are artist credits or performance names
2015-02-16 04744, 2015
nikki
(makes sense to me, I mean. I hope the arguments people are making make sense to themselves even if I don't understand them :P)
2015-02-16 04714, 2015
JesseW
nikki: is there interest in filling in descriptions for instruments that currently lack them?
2015-02-16 04728, 2015
JesseW
I'm not sure how many places the descriptions are shown...
2015-02-16 04741, 2015
nikki
that question could mean two things to me, and depending on which one you meant, yes, or no :P
2015-02-16 04703, 2015
nikki
they're shown in the search results, so they're useful and it would be good to fill in descriptions
2015-02-16 04726, 2015
nikki
so if you're asking if it'd be good to do, yes, if you're asking if anyone has offered, no
2015-02-16 04758, 2015
JesseW
I was asking the first. OK, what's the best way to send them in?
2015-02-16 04715, 2015
JesseW
(i.e. I am offering to supply some)
2015-02-16 04739, 2015
nikki
probably depends how many you have :)
2015-02-16 04707, 2015
nikki
I guess entering a ticket in jira under instrument requests works, especially for individual things
2015-02-16 04743, 2015
nikki
for a whole load at once, hmm, not sure, maybe email? maybe a ticket with an attachment?
2015-02-16 04754, 2015
JesseW
I'll be doing one at a time, so I think I'll make a ticket, and add them as comments. Will that work?
2015-02-16 04746, 2015
nikki
I'd probably prefer separate tickets in that case, 'cause I can't mark a comment as done :)
2015-02-16 04758, 2015
JesseW
heh. ok, will do
2015-02-16 04758, 2015
nikki
(i.e. it's hard to track the progress)
2015-02-16 04732, 2015
JesseW
what copyright status do they need to have (i.e. can I copy from Wikipedia)?
2015-02-16 04705, 2015
nikki
I think they get included in the cc0 dump, so they probably shouldn't just be copy/pasted from wikipedia, but since the descriptions are generally only a sentence or two, it's probably going to end up sounding a lot like what wikipedia says anyway
Does anyone think it'd be a good idea to classify artists by their vocal ranges?
2015-02-16 04743, 2015
hibiscuskazenek1
(as a category on their pages, I mean)
2015-02-16 04723, 2015
JesseW
ZaphodBeeblebrox: thanks for adding the descriptions
2015-02-16 04704, 2015
nikki
hibiscuskazenek1: you mean like saying someone is a soprano?
2015-02-16 04709, 2015
hibiscuskazenek1
Yes
2015-02-16 04713, 2015
nikki
heh
2015-02-16 04747, 2015
hibiscuskazenek1
Sort of adding a drop-down box from which users can select the one that applies
2015-02-16 04708, 2015
hibiscuskazenek1
(if the artist's range is unknown or unclassifiable it can be left blank)
2015-02-16 04748, 2015
nikki
me and reosarevok were idly talking about pretty much exactly that less than 12 hours ago
2015-02-16 04753, 2015
hibiscuskazenek1
oh wow
2015-02-16 04755, 2015
nikki
the problem is mostly that it'd be a schema change
2015-02-16 04700, 2015
hibiscuskazenek1
True
2015-02-16 04709, 2015
hibiscuskazenek1
I wanted to run the idea by a few people before I made a ticket
2015-02-16 04736, 2015
nikki
(it started as a discussion about whether we should be able to link artists directly to instruments, which would be easy since it'd just be a new relationship type)
