User:Nikki/Release quality
- Some things are required to move to the next level. Without these, the system won't let the editor increase the quality.
- Some things are optional and generate a warning (Discogs-style). The editor would be expected to explain why those things aren't present (e.g. the release has no barcode, tracks 10-20 are [silence]). The warnings would also be visible to the voters.
Levels
I'd probably have a bunch of levels like low, incomplete, default, good, complete, protected.
0
low/incorrect, has errors that need fixing?
roughly equivalent to our current low level?
Editing:
- Normal edits are auto-edits
Criteria to move to next level:
1 (Green / "Unchecked" / Default)
Editing:
- Normal edits need... 0 votes? 1 vote? Perhaps auto-edits for the original adder?
Criteria to move to next level:
- Has been verified as existing
- Existing data is correct
2 (Bronze / "Checked" / Checked by a human)
"verified that it exists and the existing data looks ok", roughly equivalent to our current default level
Editing:
- Normal edits need 2 votes
Criteria to move to next level:
- Required: Release has a subscriber (when we can subscribe to releases)
- Required: Year, country, label, format, status
- Optional: Month, day, catalogue number, barcode
- Optional: Track times
- Optional: All recordings are linked to a work
- Optional: Cover art
3 (Silver / "Filled" / Has a Watcher and has all important info filled in)
"reasonably complete, has at least x, y and z"
What to do with releases where, for example, the liner does not include the tracks to which something apply? I think for things like composers I'd probably say only level 3 if it's on the release rather than the works, since it's entirely possible that the info will be available in a works database somewhere, and for performers people with good ears could maybe figure it out
Editing:
- Capitalisation changes are no longer auto-edits
- Normal edits need... 3 votes?
Criteria to move to next level:
- Required: Packaging
- Has liner scans (once we have a way to store them)
- All info from the liner has been entered
- All works linked to the recordings have composition relationships
- All composition relationships are on works?
- All performance relationships are on the recordings?
- Has been verified against the liner (so not just copied from Discogs)
4 (Gold / "Perfect" / Has been Certified and has all possible info filled in)
"I've combed the liner notes for every last scrap of detail and can't think of a single thing I could possibly add"
roughly equivalent to our current high level?
but things like mixing and mastering are a lot harder to find out if it doesn't say which tracks, so I think those would be ok even for level 4
Editing:
- Normal edits need... 3 votes? 4 votes?
5
? (Violet / "Code-Purple" / Special case)
needs love?
this horrible release makes me think that release quality proposal would need another level: "checked and unable to verify"
A release with no Release Events should probably be limited to "incomplete" and "low quality"
