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
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nikki
apparently some people would apparently prefer that, yes
...
one day I'm gonna learn to put words like apparently and anyway in a sentence only once
anyway, the ticket has a lot of votes, so maybe it'll end up being done eventually
maybe not
Nyanko-sensei
I guess I'll continue adding new entries for them
Freso
I feel like more people want 7489 than don't.
But I may be biased since I'm in the former group. :)
nikki
most of the arguments against it that I've seen have made no sense to me
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
(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)
JesseW
nikki: is there interest in filling in descriptions for instruments that currently lack them?
I'm not sure how many places the descriptions are shown...
nikki
that question could mean two things to me, and depending on which one you meant, yes, or no :P
they're shown in the search results, so they're useful and it would be good to fill in descriptions
so if you're asking if it'd be good to do, yes, if you're asking if anyone has offered, no
JesseW
I was asking the first. OK, what's the best way to send them in?
(i.e. I am offering to supply some)
nikki
probably depends how many you have :)
I guess entering a ticket in jira under instrument requests works, especially for individual things
for a whole load at once, hmm, not sure, maybe email? maybe a ticket with an attachment?
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?
nikki
I'd probably prefer separate tickets in that case, 'cause I can't mark a comment as done :)
JesseW
heh. ok, will do
nikki
(i.e. it's hard to track the progress)
JesseW
what copyright status do they need to have (i.e. can I copy from Wikipedia)?
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?
(as a category on their pages, I mean)
JesseW
ZaphodBeeblebrox: thanks for adding the descriptions
nikki
hibiscuskazenek1: you mean like saying someone is a soprano?
hibiscuskazenek1
Yes
nikki
heh
hibiscuskazenek1
Sort of adding a drop-down box from which users can select the one that applies
(if the artist's range is unknown or unclassifiable it can be left blank)
nikki
me and reosarevok were idly talking about pretty much exactly that less than 12 hours ago
hibiscuskazenek1
oh wow
nikki
the problem is mostly that it'd be a schema change
hibiscuskazenek1
True
I wanted to run the idea by a few people before I made a ticket
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)
