http://www.metal-archives.com/users/schweine
Yet again. He's even trying to shove a band in the queue under "Industrial Pig Metal" named "Rammschwein".

Gone again.

Shit is still around us:

http://www.metal-archives.com/report/vi ... 8/show/all

I have a suggestion... to be totally honest, I'm not that keen on the new title of this thread. Although it does apply to the majority of users reported here, there are some who don't have bad intentions at all and are perhaps merely capitalizing album titles incorrectly or something, thus need just a friendly notice... so for their sake, I was thinking that a better title might be "Point whores, vandals, and other wrongdoing" or something like that... just something a bit less derogatory.

That is fair enough.

It's surprising to see a veteran write "not to be confused with [bands from other countries]":
http://www.metal-archives.com/users/SuicidalFreak
http://www.metal-archives.com/history/v ... 3540281501
http://www.metal-archives.com/history/v ... /id/128449

I'm surprised to see a user of this status going back and forth wrongly changing an album title over and over again after several people, including a moderator, corrected it.

http://www.metal-archives.com/users/Kristen%20Jensen

http://www.metal-archives.com/history/v ... /id/378984

*sigh* Warning sent. We should write that down in the rules somewhere, though as a Veteran he should've picked that up by simply browsing and updating the site...


Stern notice sent.

Isn't the capitalization to which she's changing it correct as per Irish orthography? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T%C3%ADr_na_n%C3%93g

The actual title on the cover is rendered differently, though. The band seems to use this variant exclusively as well when referring to the album. You might argue that we always follow the respective language's rules for composition titles, but this case has more differences than simply capitalisation. It's also a proper noun that -naturally- gets referenced in English and seems to have "degenerate" spelling variants, one of which as used on the album. What are Gaelic capitalisation rules for works anyway, if they exist in an explicit manner? And can this be counted as a Gaelic language title anyway? Would "Ragnarok" be a title in Old Norse?

Am I overthinking this?

Hi, I'm sorry but I just realized I did a lot of shit on my recent modification history with the french label Misandre Productions.

They just sell stuff that isn't produced by them, but I added by mistake new different versions of the concerned albums as if they were re-issues, etc.

Could you please delete the following erroneous modifications I submitted ?

2015-03-13 21:22:30 Cepheide - De Silence et de Suie Modified album version data: De Silence et de Suie
2015-03-13 21:19:06 Cepheide - De Silence et de Suie Modified album version data: De Silence et de Suie
2015-03-13 21:19:06 Cepheide - De Silence et de Suie Added album version: De Silence et de Suie
2015-03-13 21:15:09 Cepheide - De Silence et de Suie Added album version: De Silence et de Suie
2015-03-13 21:09:40 Scaphandre - The Abyssal Crypts Added album version: The Abyssal Crypts
2015-03-13 21:06:23 Scaphandre - Les Ancres Added album version: Les Ancres

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2015-03-13 20:49:11 Paramnesia - Paramnesia Added album version: Paramnesia
2015-03-13 20:46:57 Regarde Les Hommes Tomber - Regarde les hommes tomber Added album version: Regarde les hommes tomber

We have a new user submitting massive amounts of genre reports. Someone may want to look into this.

http://www.metal-archives.com/users/Clangpuzzled

PathToWalhall: Done, thanks for reporting it.

mjollnir: Many of his reports seem to be valid, barring a few weird ones, so I don't see the problem.

Okay. Another user noticed the same thing and posted in the genre thread so...just thought I'd mention something.

Clang is arguably annoying, but if pressured he does goes into specifics, I just wish he would do so on all of his initial reports to give us something to work off of. Nothing wrong otherwise..

Perhaps not even "seem". They either are or aren't, bringing his hit-or-miss approach to a literal level. That's why I thought it wouldn't take long to start closing them. Seems like they'll be there for a while, though. 15 so far, and counting...

I've tried just closing them before when it was a band I was familiar with, and he sent me a huge forum message asking why I closed without making the changes, so I was sort of cornered and had to explain myself. There is no easy way around it, he isn't doing anything overtly wrong. Those are probably going to rot for a minute as I can't sit at the PC for long periods of time at the moment because of my arm.

He's striking back:

http://www.metal-archives.com/report/vi ... 1/show/all

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Hey, so I edited Dorthia Cottrell's page just to add to trivia, and for some reason, all the information on the page (real name, age, location, etc) got deleted when I tried to submit. I re-added the info the best I could, I just figured I'd mention it just so nobody thinks I was intentionally screwing with the page.

*swat*

This guy is adding several duplicate/identical versions of some albums...

http://www.metal-archives.com/users/Zortis

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/He ... .L./406308

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Mi ... ndo/405111

He added 3 identical versions for each album above. And this doesn't seem connection problem, just see that are added at different times. And there is no even reason to add a single other version of these albums...

Not a mystery at all, I already brought this up a while ago: http://www.metal-archives.com/news/view/id/222

I sent him a reminder in any event.

I've reported this sucker for having resized several covers to low resolution and now he's doing ridiculous copy/paste from discogs. Look at this (additional notes):

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/De ... ought/9164

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Ho ... naa/365498

http://www.metal-archives.com/albums/Ac ... %29/483648

Also check his latest updates. A lot of shit to be cleaned, guys. Ban this worm, please.

Removed points and warning sent.

Lots of issues with that user. He has one more chance before I suggest banning outright

This user seems annoyed that his band Evil Erection's not been accepted on here & Weekend Nachos have: http://www.metal-archives.com/users/SEMENATOR

Banned.

Okay seriously. Now that the moderator message has been posted, anyone who adds Chris Adler to Megadeth's line up should be warned. I deleted him twice in the 15 minutes I've been on here tonight! First offender apologized in a report. Next offender....

http://www.metal-archives.com/users/diegometalero

I found that user http://www.metal-archives.com/users/theunrelentingattack changed the catalog numbers of Disembodied records releases, adding a dash [-]: DR-XXX. Most of their releases do not have that [-] before the number, so I found no sense in that changes. I can provide photos of those I got.

I'm totally pointwhoring!

Cleaning up label catalogs actively based on the catalog numbers on official webpages.

http://disembodiedrecords.com.ar/ediciones/?lang=en

All the releases on their official label page have DR-xxx

I did not know you are a moderator. Maybe moderators pointwhore too, ha!

Most label are not consistent on this issue. They start with a catalog number system and they change until they stablish one. I use to write down what I see on the CDs/LPs and not what is listed on the Internet, unless there is not other choice.

And our users aren't consistent either. So many users put in ones that aren't correct and then you go to the discography and sort and it's totally out of order - which is what it would be now that you've changed them back. Formatting of the catalog numbers is minor in the grand scheme of things - hopefully though this is the exception rather than the rule. I've seen plenty do the switching of styles but that's also reflected on the website itself - this is a case where the website and the record actually don't match.

I agree with TUA on this one. I've done the same thing.

I just want to know what criteria we follow on catalog numbers: what it's actually printed on the releases or what labels, bands and ourselves would like to be?

Ideally both if they are recognized that way.

For example, let's say you have a release with DH008, but the label prefers DH-008 for that release and every other release. In that case you list it as DH-008/DH008, as that would be the most accurate representation for what is most factual. We value how information is presented on the item itself as well as how that information is standardized by the label for its releases. For sorting reasons, it's best to go with the standardized form first and the item form second if there is a difference.

And from the perspective of someone trying to add /clean catalog numbers up - when there are so many simply typed incorrectly on the site and not owning every record made - going by the information on the label page is at least something verifiable. But if you own the record and see it different, feel free to adjust to both.

Great, I have followed both criterias. I have a huge collection so when I add something like a catalog number it's exactly what I see printed. But I also use official Internet pages when I do not own a release. I have also asked friends, musicians and collectors who have certain releases, and several images I uploaded are from pictures from other people, that I asked to authorize me to use them. So it's not only copy paste from Discogs or label pages, I try to do this work, like you said, the most accurate way possible.

Two days in a row this guy added Chris Adler as the drummer of Megadeth....and he knows the moderator message is there and ignored it.

http://www.metal-archives.com/users/MobRules1988