That is understandable and thanks for the co-operation.

I gave him a chance and I had actually sent him a very polite notice just to inform him of the standard formats we adhere to, relevant to what was discussed in the report. I also offered him the option to email me if he has further questions, as long as it's kept civilized.

Insulting other members and causing drama in reports is not something we tolerate, a warning has been sent for unacceptable behaviour in reports.

GuardAwakening removes the "Misogyny" theme for bands with explicit misogynistic themes and lyrics (Lividity, Guttural Secrete, Vulvectomy, Cephalotripsy, early Waking the Cadaver). At this point this is just pure whitewashing.

https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... nd/id/1173
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... d/id/14864
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... d/id/97648
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... d/id/60559
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... d/id/64723

Edit: just realized he has "0 points". Not sure why and what it means.

If a user's score suddenly drops to 0 it is never a good sign. Fred Durst is the rank given to banned users.

Looking very fast at his past edits I noticed, that he also removed (from unknown reason) "negativity" from Forgotten Tomb lyrical themes, "anti-religion" from Kreator lyrical themes.

I also noticed some useless format changes in additional notes (like changing text to itallic), however I'm not sure if it's considered as a violation of rules and needs to be fixed.

I don't think it will require clean-up, unless there were any clearly nonsensical changes to the format. Depending on the text that was modified, it could just about qualify as an improvement to the notes format.

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

There were problems with this user before. Just happened to notice a 1991 formation date added in for a band whose only release is a 1982 demo tape, and lyrical themes 'rebelious' - both lowercase R and one 'l' instead of 2. Themes for another band were listed as 'death, satan, gore,' but their lyrics weren't readily available when looking for them for a minute, and the song titles don't indicate those themes at all. Asked for examples:
https://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/853051

This band's only release is from 1996, and he entered 2009 in (twice) for formation year:
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/No ... 3540292543

Haven't checked the rest of the sudden rash of edits, but at a glance they look to be hasty, grammatically incorrect guesswork using no common sense or sources for quick points.

Banned.

Thanks. I'll go through and revert the edits, as looking at a few more they're baseless and incorrect.
(edit: completed.)

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/OcelotOfficial
2024-02-13 07:09:34

https://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/853621

On Feb 12th he requests in a report to rewrite " A Chinese Black Metal Band. " in the band's bio. On the same day, Tueur says no and closes the report. The day after, the Ocelot guy writes that pointless line anyway.

Notice sent. I added the Circle of the 4444 Reich bit back as it gives additional info about the band.

Sethous77 - just corrected a theme for this user and saw another new report for "wrong genre", 1 of 6 reports for the same thing.

6 reports for the same change in themes. Up to Admins here but he should leave this page alone

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/sethous77

https://www.metal-archives.com/report/b ... /mode/page

Yup and now he's done another report and commented to demand immediate action.


https://www.metal-archives.com/report/view/id/853937

Two pairs of possible sockpuppet accounts:

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/ChrisJunk
https://www.metal-archives.com/users/ChrisJunk6

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/Gaponja
https://www.metal-archives.com/users/Gaponja24

They're both found on this recommendation page, especially under the Violator rec (obv expressing the same vote).

https://www.metal-archives.com/users/Putrid_Abomination
Putrid_Abomination is adding many useful info, but he doesn't uderstand "alt spelling" idea. Most of his contributions in that area looks like typical point-whoring.

Notice sent.

Oh so this is why I got a message this morning... Welp I'm following the rules and if you're accusing me of point-whoring when I don't care about points then we're going to have a problem. You have made zero contributions to the site but you're saying my "contributions in that area looks like typical point-whoring". I do not appreciate this and I only make contributions as I see fit.

I know what alternate spelling is used for and I take the rules into consideration when I do so.

I'm following the rules and trying to help people find the bands and labels more easily, such as rule 3 and 8. Adding capitalization between words that aren't normally conjunction words will help refine the search for I'm not the only one who makes these corrections since it isn't against the rules.

But since I'm human, I can make mistakes so I would appreciate an a specific example of what I did wrong for which bands.

If you search Crown Shift and Crownshift is the name you would not find the band unless it is in the alt spelling as CrownShift or Crown Shift.

Similar case for Sleepwalker, not everyone uses it as one word and there was at least one band with it separated into two words. So I provided the alternate spelling for the others.

For labels it would be a little different for some reason
searching "Mouse Hole" pulls up "Mousehole" but for "Camel Toe Records" searching "Cameltoe Records" doesn't work. So spacing works one way but not the other.

I will still try to make appropriate corrections on that field for labels in my spare time though (mainly providing proper spelling, with/without apostrophes, names that should be compound words that are separate, etc), with that one exception of spacing for labels that Kingspooky informed me about. I really want labels to be easier to find like it is with bands, so I'll add what is needed when possible.

So if there's anything else that is 100% actually unnecessary, please let me know thanks.

If it's a case where one might search for Crownshift either as one or two words, that's fine to add an alternate spelling so that both come up in the search. Obviously, reserve such alternate spellings for bands that actually have potential for both single and multiple-word searches. However, you do not need to add SleepWalker for the alternate spelling of a band named Sleepwalker, as the search function is not case-sensitive. You can type in ALL CAPS for any band and still get the result you want.

Noted

Typing SleepWalker into the field like Putrid did makes the band searchable by typing 'Sleep Walker' in as two words. Not as common as when it's used as one word, but potentially still useful.
https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... er%22#ip=1
Some examples of bands that split the name ___ Walker into two words:
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Fl ... ker/114250
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Gh ... 3540461198
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Mo ... 3540437978
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Re ... 3540507560
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Sk ... 3540496051
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/We ... 3540505413

Just ran that through a search and you are correct, that could definitely be useful and thank you for the new knowledge. My apologies then, PA... I thought the casing didn't make a difference but in this specific case I stand corrected. I'll delete the notice I sent as it's no longer relevant.

Alright thank you, and hopefully you will take my message I just sent into consideration as well because I'm all for making the searching process more user friendly.

No problem - thanks for taking it into consideration. I noticed that Putrid does a good job around the site, and didn't want to see him face criticism unnecessarily, or for useful edits like that to cease. Cheers.

Thank you KingSpooky

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

Not sure if this is a wrongdoing, but why does his Facebook links have this format?

https://www.facebook.com/share/kMkPx17zU6ekWFVs/

I don't think I've seen that "share" format before, but it seems strange to not have the regular URL such as
https://www.facebook.com/amokschlaf

He also consequently has the tracker baggage on other links which was stated here that we should trim:
viewtopic.php?p=3138318#p3138318

I haven't seen that format before either but if it links to the exact same page I can't really see it as wrongdoing, unless anyone can confirm it's likely to become an invalid link in future.

Besides, are such links considered as legit official channels?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUBxCG ... Hr9vY7XMRA

Seems like the usual uploads by any/incognito users, not an official profile of the band, no?

Well, such an URL doesn't come from copying it at the page in question, so it looks like an active choice of his. Perhaps it's one of those mechanisms where people can make a small amount of money if linking via their site or something.

But should it really be a matter of proving that it will become invalid, rather than proving that it won't? Maybe it'd be helpful to ask that user why he makes the URL like that.

Zmora keeps changing the "Antisemitism" theme to "Anti-semitism", despite this spelling never being used here.

https://www.metal-archives.com/search/a ... ame=#bands
https://www.metal-archives.com/search/a ... ame=#bands


https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... d/id/16953
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... 3540390745
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... 3540444335
https://www.metal-archives.com/history/ ... nd/id/5646

I don't think either of them are strictly incorrect, I can't see this detail being significant enough that it needs to be changed either way. Notice sent.

User: LtLemonade

Just added two versions of the same album when that version was already listed.

Added by LtLemonade:
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/A ... er/1225219
https://www.metal-archives.com/albums/A ... er/1225224

Once again, can such YouTube "channels" be considered as official channel of the band?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8_Tej ... 5FyvNIvyqQ

Alex Hellhammer - a band's location isn't determined by what country listened to their songs the most on digital platforms. Must have fixed 30 wrong locations that you entered in by now. Better to put unknown than to guess.
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Dr ... 3540542228

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

Appears to be whitewashing Abyssal Serenity, a band with dubious origin.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Ab ... 3540542102

Also adding some duplicates for Dragonforce albums...

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

EDIT: Reported all the duplicates.

How reasonable is changing link title from "xxx @ Bandcamp" into "xxx | Bandcamp"? Which symbol should be as default one?

LtLemonade received a warning.

Not necessary at all. I am not sure if we have an official policy on it, I'll have to check... in almost any case there is nothing wrong with the symbol @ and it seems to be the more commonly used on the site.

Gustavo Capricornus loves changing "@" into "|" in those BandCamp links; besides, seems he often adds ".../music" to BandCamp links as well; don't think this is point-whoring as he is a decent contributor, but those modifications seem totally unnecessary from my perspective, and actually irritate from time to time

By adding ".../music" to the Bandcamp links it actually links to every release they have on Bandcamp. Without it, it links to one individual album.
See links below on what I mean:

https://cuffmusic.bandcamp.com/music
https://cuffmusic.bandcamp.com/

Fair enough, but even in the second case you can easily see that there's other releases in discography; it's like separating BandCamp links in two different, /music and /merch, and there's definitely no need for that.

Someone has vandalized this particular page of an Indian band named Skrypt.

https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Skrypt/3540313493

The band had split up around 2017, it's now been mentioned as 'active'.

The EP 'Threshold' was released in 2010 but now it's mentioned as 2021. There were 5 reviews of that album but now only 3 remain.

Here is the V1 version of the page which supports my complaint :

https://v1.metal-archives.com/band.php?id=3540313493