Can someone tell https://www.metal-archives.com/users/TheDonsz not to add Bandcamp arbitrary to digital releases unless they are exclusively available on Bandcamp.

Small complaint or wonder why wojty666 writes LinkName ² instead of LinkName 2. In general I think it's good if people add links and other info in a standard format rather than in their personal stylized way. And most people won't bother finding out how to write that tiny number which is both less visible and makes it look like a mathematical equation, when they can just add the number the normal way.

Such as here:
2023-07-31 04:41:15
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... ilter/data

Someone added about a million bootleg live albums to the Metallica page. I haven't looked too deep into it but this seems all kinds of wrong.

https://www.livemetallica.com

It's definitely an obnoxious amount of live albums, but they are all real and endorsed by Metallica. I've even bought one or two of them on CD.

Jeez, that's absolutely ridiculous and obnoxious. Still, 'endorsed' by the band still doesn't scream official release to me.

Reminds me a bit of the Off the Soundboard live albums by KISS. But it's different because:
1. Those are "only" 5 recordings/albums (as of now)
2. They're officially released through the band and sold on their website.

But whatever I guess.

It's not that it's "endorsed", they are entirely produced and sold by the band, under the Blackened Recordings umbrella. The "Metallica Live" brand and site are owned and operated by Metallica, and they directly provide the soundboard recordings to be polished and uploaded within days of each concert. I won't pretend it isn't a cluttered and unwieldy list to look at, but they're still official releases, so we keep them.

Maybe something similar to Behemoth will be a good solution?

https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Behemoth/Live_in_Manchester/821652

The Behemoth setup was a good fix because it only covers a single concert tour, and each stop was just made a child entry. Metallica's archives include virtually every concert they've performed from 2007-2023, along with additional selected shows from as far back as 1982. I hate to say it, but the lives we have are not even the entire back catalog, as we're missing most of the random pre-2004 concerts they're selling, not to mention a large number of the physical CD versions they've pressed. It's cluttered, but it'll be staying as is for now.

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/TORMENTUM_VEHEMENS
- Changing a lot of locations to the way that they shouldn't be listed on the site. Clean-up needed.
https://www.metal-archives.com/report/v ... 0/show/all

Check the last edit here: full-length changed to Full-length in the middle of a sentence. Maybe has done other dumb edits that the right way should be explained to him.
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/T ... rnem/11909

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/TORMENTUM_VEHEMENS
This moron is still messing with locations, and continuing to place accents where they don't belong on an English-speaking site after being told not to yesterday. Can someone please warn and/or dock points? Already cleaned up around 100 of these yesterday. "Please excuse me" doesn't really work when you failed to learn or understand, and are still causing a mess.

https://www.metal-archives.com/report/v ... 0/show/all

I think the problem may be here (taken from your report):

Bogota -> Bogotá DC
Puerto la Cruz, Anzoategui -> Puerto La Cruz, Anzoátegui

That guy may have a problem in understanding English, and thinks, that locations should be written this way, where the arrow points.

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/FermentedInnards

Mentions bands from different countries to not be confused with.

2023-08-12 15:55:28
2023-08-12 15:51:42

I'll clean those up, but I'm not sure if there are more instances.

Just saw these as you were cleaning them up. Nothing in the most recent history that I can find, and a PM is being sent.

Tell this guy to stop making all these mass (usually retarded and unnecessary) picture changes

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/Az ... the%20Goth

he does this when changing the image was fully unnecessary (and what was there was already fine) at best, and changes it something worse at worst

Also this dude adding private facebook page links to artist pages as well:
https://www.metal-archives.com/users/Funeral_Inception
I will never understand why the people that do this dont get that it (imo) is kind of creepy - especially when it's done to a person who very briefly played bass in some obscure doom band or played keyboard in some random local deathcore for a few weeks or a month or two and did literally nothing else musically............who viewing Metal Archives would possibly ever want or need that persons facebook that they only use for close friends and family?

I looked through a few of the old photos/logos on the Wayback machine, on the ones I checked his updates appeared to make slight improvements but he may be lucky with the ones I chose. If you have any comparisons to show other replacement photos are inferior or unnecessary let me know. Nothing sent for now.


Message sent.

Holy fucking shit, dude went ham

Thanks for that observation, but let's try to keep posts in here on-topic. You're also welcome to help with the clean-up of links added!

Woop sorry - I've already started on that

A year later and he's still doing this:
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... ilter/data
2023-08-25 12:18:17

Replacing perfectly valid links with the same type of link with the only difference that his links leads to a later release. In this case, the album his Bandcamp link leads to isn't even released. But it's a pointless modification regardless.

I'm fine with adding two separate links for the same store based in different regions, though I sent a message about linking to an unreleased album. I consulted with the site's expert, band.bandcamp.com/music is the best way to add a Bandcamp link as it always directs to the discography page.

I'm not following you regarding regions and band-driven Bandcamp pages.

If there is a link under official merch leading to label.bandcamp.com/album, then modifying that valid link to label.bandcamp.com/later-album adds nothing.

Indeed, a message was sent about that.

Last changes for these artists:
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... n/id/94466
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... n/id/50041

and for all other artists from this album:
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Мастер_-_Коррозия_Металла_-_Shah_-_Чёрный_Кофе_-_Тяжёлый_День_-_Форт_Росс/Destroïka/827040

made by this guy:
https://www.metal-archives.com/users/WinterfesteBM

looks very strange: he add them than delete, than add, than delete and continuing to do it for a few hours already

More than 13,000 modifications on a single album just by line-ups, only for it to finally be empty... yeah sure that's legitimate. There is a major exploit going on there that I have never seen before, and definitely wasn't done with good intentions. User banned.

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/TORMENTUM_VEHEMENS
User that caused some problems already just changed the "not to be confused with" note on the bands named Murder from Colombia to make them worse: removing the listed genre of each, putting periods at the end of each one mentioned mentioned (which don't belong there), and putting an accent on the city name in a way that we don't list them on the site (one of the issues this person has created before, calling for a lot of clean-up).
Same user: changed Limited edition, CD-R to CD-R, Limited edition on a release.
Also finding places to add the accents in letters of Colombian cities back, despite an effort being made to explain that it's not how they should be listed on the site, like this label: https://www.metal-archives.com/labels/U ... %ADn/43316

(edit, 9/5: Sent him a message through a report, since there was no response here and I assume no one did anything about it. Don't enjoy seeing the work towards consistency undone, so explained what errors shouldn't continue in the future.)

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/got_te
- adding a lot of duplicate entries of vinyl releases, both just straight-up duplicates and making new entries for vinyl of a different color (and not updating quantity on original entry, but shouldn't be listed separately anyway). Basically just making a mess.

Message/warning sent.

TORMENTUM_VEHEMENS continues to move information around on pages to make it worse than it was originally, similar to what gutterscream did for years (clean-up still ongoing there). At least gutterscr. found some obscure bands to add, though. Not sure if Tormentum has contributed a shred of worthwhile information to the site so far, despite having earned thousands of points by making pages worse or moving things around that were fine as is. Sent a message about the latest worthless edits noticed.

Not getting any better with TORMENTUM_VEHEMENS. Phone number for label address having (cell) added prior to it, band lineup being added to recording notes, Compilation appearances being changed to Compilation appearance(s) when there is more than one appearance, tendinitis being changed to tendonitis (both are correct), etc. Sent over about 5 specific examples of edits that shouldn't be happening.

He is still doing the same job of changing one letter in the city, province, artist or track name. At least I found quite a lot of these done today.

Perhaps it's time for more radical reaction.

The fawk is a point whore??

Pointwhore (n): One who regularly and/or repeatedly boosts their contribution score on the website Encyclopaedia Metallum: The Metal Archives through edits that are either of no benefit, or are detrimental to the site, in attempt to create the illusion that they are an incredible contributor.
(example, used in a sentence): "Pointwhore TORMENTUM_VEHEMENS boosted his score up by 2,000 within the last month, but most of those edits were completely unnecessary."

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/duwan

For example the two entries at 2023-10-01 15:13:16 but also other around that time. Is he removing roles that are on one and the same row just to add them on separate ones?

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/thornscrowndoom

User made a mess of his own band's page back in July (still remains that way on the site, including what he believes the genre to be, contradicting what is listed, in additional notes/bio), and keeps coming back to add invalid releases and mess around with the page while remaining clueless about how to properly edit. Several releases listed as format 'other' with no specification, discombobulated timeline, capitalization errors, writing "Sounds like Doom/Heavy metal or something...." in recording notes, leaving raw links, etc. Needs to be warned and explained what not to do, and this band's page needs a good clean-up.
https://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/833988

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/thornscrowndoom

Still doing useless shit, like adding three digital releases "other versions" on the tab for "3"

Just cleaned up what I could, and put in a simpler report of exactly which invalid releases and duplicates need to be deleted.

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/Vengeanceismine666

This idiot is going around vandalizing pages/adding nonsense to various fields. All in his history.

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/demonfong
I brought this user up back in May (ban evasion): viewtopic.php?f=3&t=64976&p=3101093&hilit=demonfong#p3101093
Nothing was said or done about that post. Since then a new issue has arisen:
https://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/839037
https://www.metal-archives.com/labels/B ... ords/61882
Not sure why we're keeping this person around.

This guy is just asking for copyright lawsuit

Yeah. I mean, there's an Anal Cunt digital album in there. How blatant can you be without just putting Kiss "Destroyer" in on the page for download? For everything that we do around here to tighten up the site, improve images, etc. it's surprising that something like that slides for so long as an apparent non-priority to take care of - not just the fake label which has stood as valid for nearly a month after first being alerted (almost 2 months live on the site), but the link that continues to lead people to the fraudulent Bandcamp page. It's not up to me, though. Just alerting to those who might care to do something about it, who are able to.