Anyone want to help me clean? There'll be plenty of CDs to add to MusicBrainz!
2016-12-01 33627, 2016
CallerNo6
hibiscuskazeneko, that's true of copyrighted material, certainly. I don't know if copyright really covers (or is meant to cover) a phrase like that. I mean, how many ways are there to say the same thing? If you needed to come up with a different way to describe every metal band from texas, you'd need to start making new words, wouldn't you?
2016-12-01 33645, 2016
hibiscuskazeneko
It's kinds pointless to add info like that to the disamb when we have artist area fields
2016-12-01 33618, 2016
CallerNo6
You're not the only editor who feels that way.
2016-12-01 33634, 2016
CallerNo6
I kind of like it. It makes artists easy to spot in a search.
2016-12-01 33633, 2016
CallerNo6
I'm confused, though, about the artist area guideline.
2016-12-01 33629, 2016
drsaunders
you need the area because you can't see the area field when selecting an artist
2016-12-01 33656, 2016
CallerNo6
you see the area if you do a regular search, but yeah, for relationships the disambig is reallly helpful
2016-12-01 33629, 2016
Leftmost
Or editing track artists on a release.
2016-12-01 33637, 2016
CallerNo6
style/artist seems to discourage using areas smaller than country unless the artist "is most commonly associated with an area smaller than a country"
2016-12-01 33618, 2016
CallerNo6
I don't really know how to apply that. Everybody's from somewhere, aren't they?
2016-12-01 33633, 2016
CallerNo6
(well, maybe not the Monkees)
2016-12-01 33615, 2016
CallerNo6
(okay, fine, a lot of groups are probably not from any one place)
2016-12-01 33633, 2016
Leftmost
Well, I think of U2 as being from Ireland, versus Nirvana as being from Seattle.
2016-12-01 33652, 2016
CallerNo6
Would that be true if you were Irish?
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CatQuest
i thought u2 was american or something :P
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CatQuest
sows what i know
2016-12-01 33611, 2016
CatQuest
shows*
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Leftmost
Hard to say. I'm trying to answer that myself.
2016-12-01 33636, 2016
CallerNo6
Become Irish. It's the only way to be sure.
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CatQuest
you're atleast leftmost. that's..
2016-12-01 33642, 2016
CatQuest
irland is leftmost in the uk?
2016-12-01 33657, 2016
Leftmost
Ireland isn't in the UK.
2016-12-01 33612, 2016
Leftmost
Though I also tend to think of Journey as American, not San Franciscan.
2016-12-01 33617, 2016
CatQuest
I said he wrong word for mening the stupid islands down there ffs. it's 4:40 >_<
2016-12-01 33629, 2016
CatQuest
also
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CatQuest
also
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CatQuest
yes
2016-12-01 33639, 2016
CallerNo6
In the Bay Area, Journey is totally thought of as a local band.
2016-12-01 33603, 2016
CatQuest
don't nag on me for saying there wrong word for some dumb place man, :rarg:!!!
2016-12-01 33603, 2016
CatQuest isn't really mad, sjut sleep deprived
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CallerNo6
As is, say, Tom Waits. But he's probably not thought of that way worldwide.
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Leftmost
No. I would also think of Tom Waits as American.
2016-12-01 33600, 2016
CatQuest
you guys are totally not even looking at what i'm writing. just having a conversation witouth me. well whatever
2016-12-01 33600, 2016
CatQuest goes back to binge-watching adventure time
2016-12-01 33619, 2016
CallerNo6
Right, so the guideline is weird because everybody sees it slightly differently. Naturally, to me all local musicians are local musicians.
2016-12-01 33622, 2016
Leftmost
I read it, but I didn't really have a response. :-P
2016-12-01 33653, 2016
Leftmost
CallerNo6, probably not everybody. Just lots of people. ;)
2016-12-01 33658, 2016
CallerNo6
Okay, so like, Guns n Roses?
2016-12-01 33625, 2016
CallerNo6
I only think of LA, but that's probably not everybody's first thought.
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Leftmost
I'd say American again
2016-12-01 33643, 2016
Leftmost
.
2016-12-01 33640, 2016
CallerNo6
haha. they were literally formed by members of L.A. Guns and Hollywood Rose.
2016-12-01 33657, 2016
CallerNo6
What does a butt metal band need to do to be considered "LA" around here?
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Leftmost
Call themselves Los Angeles.
2016-12-01 33632, 2016
CallerNo6
I'll make some calls, see if we can get 'er done.
2016-12-01 33655, 2016
Leftmost
Even then, I might think they were posers from Ohio.
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CatQuest
"Posers from Ohio" sounds like a totes legit bandname
2016-12-01 33612, 2016
CatQuest
sorry, I want attention :(
2016-12-01 33647, 2016
CallerNo6
I have no reason to believe that that's not a band.
2016-12-01 33632, 2016
CatQuest
indeed
2016-12-01 33637, 2016
CallerNo6 catches himself having double-standards. Van Halen? Totally L.A,. Frank Zappa? not L.A.!
