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Information on Editing
Remember that "moderating" is BadTerminology as it stands for both the VotingProcess and the EditingProcess.
The main page at
![[WWW]](/-/musicbrainz/img/moin-www.png)
http://www.musicbrainz.org/mod_intro.html has a lot of text that could be adopted for this page. It needs to be corrected for BadTerminology but is an excellent starting point for content on this page.
Help on Editing
If you want to know how edits work in detail:
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This should be replaced with a page named EditTypes that describes the general nature of the different types, linking to individual pages for each one (e.g. EditArtistNameEdit).
... and of course there are the StyleGuidelines, that tell you how you should format the data.
If you need help on what you can do, here are some places to look at:
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On the MusicBrainz home page's SiteMenu there is a
list of EditingSuggestions like the DuplicateReleasesReport that show pages likely to contain data that does not conform to the style guidelines. If you'd like to participate in the moderation process, but don't know where to start, check out these pages.
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This FAQ deals with techniques for fixing misencoded entries for artists, releases and tracks.
Other Stuff
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Privacy implications of being a MusicBrainz editor.
AutoInsertFromFreeDB:
This is obsolete by now An explanation of the way FreeDB data was automatically entered into MusicBrainz (this is not done any more). There is also an even more obsolete page named FreeDBModeration.