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Registered: December 3, 2008 | Posts: 186 |
| Posted: | | | | Hello all,
I have noticed a few contribution changes involving only typo correction in names, adding DOB (date of birth) or slight cosmetic changes here and there.
Question: When I review those, I check the list to see if 'uncredited' cast or other stuff are still 'wrong' in the changes. If someone contribute the change but leave obvious changes which should be done, do you guys vote yes or no? (me I am voting no... why doing only a date of birth as a contribution while doing the full verification... thought?
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Registered: October 6, 2008 | Posts: 1,932 |
| Posted: | | | | I vote "No" for such, as well. (But I won't go into the uncredited unless I know something about that particular title.) |
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Registered: August 22, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,807 |
| Posted: | | | | I only vote Yes or No on what has actually been changed, not on what has not been changed. Especially in my locality (Italy), there are so few contributors that nitpicking on a legitimate contribution just because there is "more to be done", well, wouldn't make much sense, in my opinion. Maybe the scenario is different for US or UK releases, where there are more contributors, so higher standards might be desirable. Personally, if there is something *else* that I would like to see added/corrected/removed in the profile, I might drop a line by PM, or vote Neutral, but never vote NO. | | | -- Enry |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Reputation: | Posts: 13,202 |
| Posted: | | | | There is nothing in the rules that require anybody to do a full audit. If someone is adding good data, and not removing other good data, you can't vote 'no'. Partial contributions are allowed. While I don't like it, it is something that Gerri has confirmed. | | | No dictator, no invader can hold an imprisoned population by force of arms forever. There is no greater power in the universe than the need for freedom. Against this power, governments and tyrants and armies cannot stand. The Centauri learned this lesson once. We will teach it to them again. Though it take a thousand years, we will be free. - Citizen G'Kar |
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Registered: March 14, 2007 | Posts: 1,777 |
| Posted: | | | | If they're fixing something, then that's fine. If it annoys me that much that there are unattended errors, I'll just fix them myself. My only real concern is that no additional errors are being added. |
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Registered: May 9, 2007 | Posts: 254 |
| Posted: | | | | I figure that as long as they are correcting bad data and not actually introducing NEW bad data, I'll happily vote yes.
Edit: Or, what midnitoil said... ;P | | | "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it." - Jack Handey | | | Last edited: by Broven |
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Registered: December 3, 2008 | Posts: 186 |
| Posted: | | | | mmmm very interesting posts so far... The only thing so far I have a 'bug' with is with the obvious loose threads hanging from the contribution... yet, as mentioned before my post, if there is no 'new' error in then....
I might do what was proposed and start using the 'neutral' on those, unless the individual is actually adding a mistake, which would deserve a 'no'..
Thanks for the great ideas / suggestions!
Eric | | | E |
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Registered: September 30, 2008 | Reputation: | Posts: 1,805 |
| Posted: | | | | I vote yes on small changes like that.
The way I look at it, sure the contributor could be making more changes, but the information being submitted is still correct, so there's no legitimate reason to not vote yes on it, in my mind.
I also try and keep this in mind especially if it's a Canadian locality profile. The contributors for the Canadian section of my dvd's is much much smaller than for the U.S. section of my DVD's. (I'm still shocked at the number of Canadian DVD's that I had to enter that were BIG title releases). So any help is muchly appreciated.
And not everyone is as annoyingly anal retentive as I am. While submitting the changes for Robert Downey, Jr. for the new filter set-up, I found myself pouring over every detail of the dvd and basically doing a full audit. Not everyone would do that, a ton would simply submit it for the Jr. name and move on... Gotta keep in mind not everyone works the same way I do. | | | The night is calling. And it whispers to me soflty come and play. |
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Registered: January 5, 2008 | Posts: 61 |
| Posted: | | | | If someone adds or corrects a simple thing without it damaging the profile with incorrect data. Then I certainly vote yes, these days there are a lot of contributions for changing to the new jr suffix rule.
A slight change to the better is better than no corrections at all. Though I must admit if its just simple little things, I tend to just correct it locally. |
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Registered: December 3, 2008 | Posts: 186 |
| Posted: | | | | Merrick, Yup that is what I am now doing... 'data contributed=good'? then yup... Especially if you are the contributor hahaha Eric | | | E |
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Registered: March 13, 2007 | Posts: 21,610 |
| Posted: | | | | Quoting lostmule: Quote: Hello all,
I have noticed a few contribution changes involving only typo correction in names, adding DOB (date of birth) or slight cosmetic changes here and there.
Question: When I review those, I check the list to see if 'uncredited' cast or other stuff are still 'wrong' in the changes. If someone contribute the change but leave obvious changes which should be done, do you guys vote yes or no? (me I am voting no... why doing only a date of birth as a contribution while doing the full verification... thought?
Eric Correct data is correct data, if the new data is correct then it is NOT allowed in the Rules for you to judge whether it is "enough." Skip | | | ASSUME NOTHING!!!!!! CBE, MBE, MoA and proud of it. Outta here
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Registered: December 3, 2008 | Posts: 186 |
| Posted: | | | | Quote: Quoting Skip: Correct data is correct data, if the new data is correct then it is NOT allowed in the Rules for you to judge whether it is "enough." Skip This is why I have revised my position.. if it is 'good' then by all mean (following a conversation with Merrik I am going with a full 'yes' instead)... meh, at least the data is corrected one baby step (in some cases) at a time!! Eric | | | E |
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