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Topic: (Lack of) Images

28th Oct 2016, 9:26 AM
	RogerFoster To ignore is human, to follow is divine. Member since Jul 2014 3084 Points	I can't agree that it is "unhelpful" to add an item without supporting images. On the contrary I think it is extremely "helpful"!! I spent a number of weeks painstakingly cataloguing/entering going through my collection of 45s on 45Cat two years back. I found that about 8-9% of my 45s were not already listed on the site and maybe another 4-5% were there but without an image that matched my copy. Me being me, I had to add images if any were missing and although that slowed me down in my cataloguing it wasn't by too much. And then I came onto 45Worlds and started cataloguing my 12" singles ... here the ratio of items that weren't already listed was much higher and it took me as long to complete my run through of my 12" singles as it had my 7" ones, even though in numerical terms I have over three 7" singles for every 12" one. Then I considered cataloguing my Vinyl and CD Albums on 45Worlds .... It quickly became apparent that I would be entering at least 90% of them from scratch as the overwhelming majority of them were not already listed here in any shape or form. After a few months of dithering I finally bit the bullet and started work on the Vinyl LPs and CDs. It must have taken me about a year to get through the lot. Believe me I was quite grateful if I found that someone had already entered an item but without an image as that cut down a task that might take an hour down to 5-10 minutes. It is immensely time consuming to enter details of a fresh album (CD Compilations are the worst, one of those might take well over an hour to complete), which is probably why 45Worlds hasn't yet quite taken off in the way that 45Cat has done. If I were running a business and cataloguing LPs/CDs etc. as part of some project I would have teams of three to enter the items .. one person would be banging in the data, one would be providing the images and the other would be checking/overseeing the process. We are all volunteers here and I think it would be totally wrong to insist that every entry has to be set up with an image. We should be grateful that people are taking the time and effort to contribute even if what they enter isn't 100% "complete".