TS: Discogs mods vs, Wikipedia mods

Discogs database admin apparently incapable of actually administering their database. Nice job if you can get it I suppose.

all of my discogs contributions are apparently too obscure to get voted on ;_;

Same here :(

Does anyone on ILM have Discogs voting privileges or should I just give up on trying to contribute to that site?

My account is prevented from contributing because some wanker voted a change I made as Entirely Incorrect, when I was correct and he was wrong. This was upheld by mods on the site, my change was put through and they suspended the voting rights of the incorrect dude, but because someone voted me Entirely Incorrect, regardless of correctness of that vote, my account is locked. And the admin "can't do anything about it", even while acknowledging it's wrong!

Nice to see one of my old ranty threads get used.

http://www.discogs.com/explore?genre=Non-Music

http://www.discogs.com/artist/223385-Adolf-Hitler

23 albums but only the one single.

rockist

The chancellor record is actually a myth, that was a rumour started here in Berne, a lot of collectors were fooled by that

http://www.discogs.com/artist/223385-Adolf-Hitler?filter_anv=1&anv=Chancellor+Adolf+Hitler

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_y8V0VZ6H0Sw/R2LcO0KUIdI/AAAAAAAAAIQ/sKOu_Vg6QIw/s1600/beatles_hitler_002.jpg

https://www.discogs.com/Various-Breakdance/release/124945

This compilation is not recognized as a compilation by discogs because of the wording used in the 'marketing' of this compilation album.

I visit discogs for information sometimes, but I'm not a power user. There don't seem to be any other entries that use this language. What do you think they mean by this?

Classic k-tel comp with rare original material

I've recently been using Discogs a lot more -- realized that by creating a catalog of what I have using their records is great for insurance reasons; their app allowing for UPC scanning made the time doing that pretty simple -- and as a result I've been seeing what updates and changes mods/contributors make to things I have. For the most part it's been pretty good -- one example I like is this (thoroughly stellar, BTW) box set:

https://www.discogs.com/release/4660622

What someone's been doing all this month is slowly but surely adding all the individual song credits for the performers backing the lead credited singer/players. Really enriches the whole deal.

Discogs is my favorite reference resource ever.

It's a remarkably good crowdsourced site. I've talked with a coworker who is a professional archivist about it because we both know it's not library-level professional record making as such -- the AMG, which started using MARC records around 15 years back, has a leg up there, though I could be missing something about Discogs using it too. But Discogs has been able to account for variants and technical details and more to a remarkable degree, and by default its record-buying/selling aspect has further helped in terms of that precision, an actual market-driven solution, however haphazardly applied.

Australian-British Rock duo (formerly Australian-British Rock band) who technically one of the most successful artist on Billboard's Hot 100 in the 1980s but on singles chart that didn't know Air Supply so well like the Netherlands, they are best known for their power ballad, "All Out of Love", and after all their follow-up singles failed to chart at all! Into the 1990s, their popularity on the Hot 100 has been faded because the 1990s listeners have been buy Grunge records instead of Soft Rock records but their popularity in Asia keep strong because Soft Rock music is everlasting instead of Grunge music that more complex and that's why they choose Asia as their next destination and this make the albums, The Earth Is... and The Vanishing Race, which was scored the best known songs from both, "Without You" (a cover of the Badfinger song covered by the American singer-songwriters, Harry Nilsson and Mariah Carey, and Air Supply's version taken from their album, The Earth Is...) and "Goodbye" (from their album, The Vanishing Race). The single, "The One That You Love", was their only #1 song on the Hot 100 but in the Netherlands it failed to match the same success as of their previous single, "All Out of Love" (reaching #27 on Nederlandse Top 40), but being more known there when it was covered by the "Why Tell Me, Why" fame, Anita Meyer.