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Topic: CD Albums: Time To Bite The Bullet Pt. 1 The Problem

20th May 2017, 3:04 AM
	Alenko Member since Oct 2015 2899 Points	Well Lee, it is hard to expect everybody who is contributing here to actually know exactly what they are doing. I have been moderator of much bigger site for more than 10 years now and going through approximately 160,000 corrections there, I have learned that teaching users how to properly contribute to the site is a very hard job. Being moderator means also to be a teacher, to tell users what they are doing wrong. Or correct I wish there was a correction history here, I wish there was a correction queue here visible to all the users. I am not sure that everybody who is a moderator here understands complexity of adding CD releases. I joined here for one reason, to add complete scans of the CD albums. I'm not even touching other formats. I think this site has a great layout and it's sad how many releases here don't even have cover image. When it comes to international releases, that category should be removed. In my opinion it has been abused. For example, somebody adds EU CD, complete set of scans, but the place issued is International because discogs lists same CD, label, catalog number, barcode as Peruvian issue. I am not interested what other sites list. I am only interested in what is added here, including info and cover scans. If Peruvian issue exists, maybe additional scans should be added first before changing it into International Also, where you can buy CD shouldn't mean that the CD was issued in the market where it was sold. Where CD was manufactured also doesn't mean all the time it was issued there. Many of Columbia European CDs were manufactured in Austria, because the CD factory is there. Croatia Records manufactures its CDs in Austria as well. All of them have Made in Austria. Not Austrian issues though There is a difference between place issued and place distributed. We should not add International to albums that were sold in Australia, for example, even if they were sold under regular price. I'm sorry my friends from down under, but it seems to me you get a lot of imports (CDs that have no mentioning of Australia anywhere on the release, hence not Australian issues), even if they have regular price. Those albums were distributed in Australia, not issued there. I think we should stick with what information is available on the CD instead of trying to find answer on any other site on the internet. Almost every CD has information that will tell us correct place issued. Maybe solution is to be able to add additional places issued and get rid of International category. One more thing, several of my entries have labels changed by who knows who (can't see correction history). Unfortunately every change was incorrect.