User:Dmppanda
Who are you?
A moderator known either as dmppanda, Mangled, or Olivier. Any of these will make my IRC client go *blink* (if I'm on IRC) - otherwise, you can drop me a mail.
I was formerly known as The Creature of Dr teleSTEIN, and/or as The Crazy Annotations Master - a somewhat overrated title I owned by... annotating... Lately, Yurim has been calling me L.A. (Lord Annotator) - which probably means I'm getting old ;)
I'm supposed to operate mostly in the Jazz sections of the database. Actually, this part of the db is pretty much abandoned, so it wasn't really hard to look like I was a jazz guru - which I'm not.
I'm a native french speaker, willing to help these who desperately need to fix french titles but can't (as long as they don't plan to call on ArtistIntent). Note that somebody calling on ArtistIntent does not actually need any kind of expertise - they can mess the titles all by themselves.
Due to a demanding and variable professional life, I'm on and off depending on the period of the year and facts beyond my control (eg: if I got work, or if I got dough / spondulicks / wonga) - so you may either find me very easily, or have to wait a week for a mail answer...
What is on this page?
Some random stuff, memos, todo list, notes, bookmarks, dinosaurs bones...
Extra-editing stuff I've been workin' on
Wiki:
- As far as I remember, my first contribution to the wiki was this tomfoolery:
- The Completist.
- I then done my share in fleshing out the Jazz section:
- Jazz
- Jazz/Collections
- Jazz/Compositions
- Jazz/Dates
- Jazz/Labels and childrens...
- Jazz/Places
- Jazz/Quotes
- Jazz/Words
- While as a whole the interest of these pages is pretty random, some of them happen to be valuable, and I suggest you take a look at Jazz/Compositions and Jazz/Collections for editing suggestions.
- Lately, I've been involved in the work done on labels, which sum up to: Template:FullSearch
- I'm also the father of this other tomfoolery:
- FrogsTidyingMarathon which happens to have generated +10k edits ;)
Style stuff I introduced:
- AdvancedRelationship artist wrote liner notes for release.
- the new language Artificial (Other) (see the badly misnamed ArtificialArtists)
Editing plans
- get rid of the VA comp mess on jazz
- Artists on the tidying radar:
- Don Pullen
- Django Reinhardt
- Charles Mingus
- Eric Dolphy
- Thelonious Monk
- Charlie Parker
- Billie Holiday
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Duke Ellington
- Erik Satie
- Ornette Coleman
- getting the jazz incoming flow under control
- trying to get the french stuff incoming flow under control
- verify albums with Multiple Language set / No Language set
- get ready for the arrival of label entries in the system
Style TODO
- re-open capitalization style for abreviated words like 'Round
- obtain track annotations
- form the MB Jazz Strike Force with other jazz moderators, an informal group of moderators sharing/debating opinions (eg: on topics like track title variant chosen for harmonization), and coordinating tidying efforts, ensuring both that Jazz doesn't derive from MB style, and still doesn't loose its specificity - right now, the strike-force/thingie/stuff resumes to Yllona and myself communicating by throwing at each other rare jazz track titles, mood-driven and freely-word-associated, which is actually very fun
Some (auto)-editors, Volume 1: The Good
Editors I've been/I'm working with regularly:
- Marcel Editor:Bad_Seed, who always answer yes for my spanish/portuguese laundry
- Editor:mbase1235 a.k.a. Steve Coleman, on the project to fix his own discography
- Editor:Joan+Whittaker, co-authoring mailings and bug reports, rampaging through Jazz/Compositions, co-fixing horked releases... Not to mention she regularly vote on my edits and stuff my subscriptions with countless edits ;)
- Editor:keschte, with whom I used to exchange light minded mails on technical topics like "what is the sex of javascript?" or "do DOM elements have brainz?"
Editors I'm sometime voting on their edits:
- teleSTEIN (Editor:teleguise) suspicious activities :D
- Beth aka Nyght (Editor:Nyght) open list
- mo (Editor:mo) cat's grooves
- Zout (Editor:zout) open mods
- Shepard (Editor:shepard) Shepherding occupations
- Yllona Richardson (Editor:Yllona+Richardson) The Jazz Ruler
- Joan Whittaker (Editor:Joan+Whittaker) The Apostrophe Queen
- drsaunde (Editor:drsaunde) The Abominable Dr. Saunde
An editor doing a lot of interesting adds to the jazz section:
- tetedechou (Editor:tetedechou)
A promising ("young") editor, doing a lot of good job on neglected stuff:
- murdos (Editor:murdos)
A ("young") editor, also doing good work, with a viciously funny sense of humor :) :
- Yurim (Editor:Yurim)
Some (auto)-editors, Volume 2: The Bad
Editors who are/were adding bogus/random event releases without care or reason:
- Editor:Pianissimo84
- Editor:MLL
Editors who never answer:
- Editor:malochio@gmail.com
Editors who don't like styleguides, and prefer their own opinion about things:
- Editor:claiborne
- Editor:MLL
Some (auto)-editors, Volume 3: The Ugly
None yet, hopefully.
Bookmarks: Things I should watch on a regular basis and I don't
Funniest typos
Track typos that made me laugh:
- L'idole des jaunes
- Would You Lie to Take a Walk?
- Take Lobe Easy
Stuff that need to be addressed / answered
- instruments "tap dancing" (Who used to dance) and "pocket trumpet" (Don Cherry)
- ticket 2090
- need to be able to return more than 100 results on search
- GuessCase strange behavior on "Sittin' and Rockin'"
- GuessCase french mode somewhat horked
Ideas for reports / scripts / crazy development
- Have a report of all (supposed) homebrew discid
- release date: mom' lil' helper
- A XUL interface to the web service and/or the web site
Holy crap!!!!
- http://musicbrainz.org/showalbum.html?albumid=210961
- http://musicbrainz.org/search/textsearch.html?query=count+basie&type=artist&limit=50
Extremely politically incorrect thoughts
Disclaimer: whoever you are, don't you ever mention me as a reference if you think the same. These thoughts are the shame of the community, counter-productive, dangerous, and I'll deny I ever thought them if somebody asks me.
That being said...
- "Preserving (album version) into titles just sucks"
- "Using sentence mode for french capitalization is the laziest and most stupid move done by the french editors in MB *ever*. Nice going guys."
- "Go to hell composer style!" (Shepard in a great moment of inspiration)
Spoken languages
(like Shepard, but worse: it's (a bit) more than "some" but it's (very) far from fluent ;) , which obviously is my favorite excuse to ignore things when I don't want to hear them) Template:lang fr-native Template:lang en-some