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Every month or so, a new artist or project is chosen to be the subject of the Cleanup of the Month (previously 'Collaboration of the Month'). The aim is to bring the efforts of the community to a focus on providing the most complete and correct discography possible for a single artist, or to take care of a cleanup project too large for any one editor to handle.
* [[Image:Attention.png]] This month's cleanup is [[Artist:b09ae88f-4156-4caa-b129-1cacb5e1632e|Benny Goodman]], things that need to be done are at [[Cleanup Of The Month/Benny Goodman|/BennyGoodman]] and you can discuss issues there or in [the forum].


Each collaboration is organised and discussed in its own wiki page and forum topic.
Rougly every month or so a new artist is chosen from a list of nominations to be the subject of Cleanup of the Month. The aim is was work as a team to provide the most complete discography possible for a major artist in about one month. Good candidates for CotM should be well-known artists that have messy and incomplete [[MusicBrainz]] entries.

==Current Cleanup(s) of the Month==


Each collaboration can be organised and discussed in its own wiki page and forum topic.


==Selecting the next Cleanup of the Month==
==Selecting the next Cleanup of the Month==


To nominate an artist for next months collaboration, list the artists name at the end of the list below. To vote for a nomination, enter your name underneath the description. Please add more candidates!
To nominate an artist for a future cleanup, list the artist's name at the end of the list on the discussion page. To vote for a nomination, enter your name underneath the description. Good candidates for CotM should be artists that have large, messy, and incomplete [[MusicBrainz]] entries. Please add more candidates!



==Current Cleanup of the Month==

* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/b09ae88f-4156-4caa-b129-1cacb5e1632e.html Benny Goodman] (February-March 2008)


==Previous Collaborations/Cleanups of the Month==
==Previous Collaborations/Cleanups of the Month==
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* [[Collaboration Of The Month/The Beatles|The Beatles]] (November-December 2006)
* [[Collaboration Of The Month/The Beatles|The Beatles]] (November-December 2006)
* [[Collaboration Of The Month/Dire Straits|Dire Straits]] (January-April 2007)
* [[Collaboration Of The Month/Dire Straits|Dire Straits]] (January-April 2007)
* [[Collaboration Of The Month/Bob Marley|Bob Marley]] (May-June 2007) <ref>Due to growing pains of the Musicbrainz Community and the complexity of Bob Marley's musicantry, and insufficient interest in CotM at large, Bob Marley's entry(ies) where not completed satisfactionary. </ref>
* [[Collaboration Of The Month/Bob Marley|Bob Marley]] (May-June 2007)
** ''Note: Due to growing pains of the Musicbrainz Community and the complexity of Bob Marley's musicantry, and insufficient interest in CotM at large, Bob Marley's entries were not completed.''
* [[Cleanup Of The Month/Ennio Morricone|Ennio Morricone]] (July-August 2007)
* [[Cleanup Of The Month/Ennio Morricone|Ennio Morricone]] (July-August 2007)
* [[Cleanup Of The Month/%5 Bunknown%5 D|[unknown]]] (September 2007-January 2008)
* [[Cleanup Of The Month/%5 Bunknown%5 D|[unknown]]] (September 2007-January 2008)
* [http://musicbrainz.org/artist/b09ae88f-4156-4caa-b129-1cacb5e1632e.html Benny Goodman] (February-March 2008)


[[Community Project]]
[[Community Project]]

Revision as of 09:08, 8 December 2009

Every month or so, a new artist or project is chosen to be the subject of the Cleanup of the Month (previously 'Collaboration of the Month'). The aim is to bring the efforts of the community to a focus on providing the most complete and correct discography possible for a single artist, or to take care of a cleanup project too large for any one editor to handle.

Each collaboration is organised and discussed in its own wiki page and forum topic.

Current Cleanup(s) of the Month

Selecting the next Cleanup of the Month

To nominate an artist for a future cleanup, list the artist's name at the end of the list on the discussion page. To vote for a nomination, enter your name underneath the description. Good candidates for CotM should be artists that have large, messy, and incomplete MusicBrainz entries. Please add more candidates!

Previous Collaborations/Cleanups of the Month

  • The Beatles (November-December 2006)
  • Dire Straits (January-April 2007)
  • Bob Marley (May-June 2007)
    • Note: Due to growing pains of the Musicbrainz Community and the complexity of Bob Marley's musicantry, and insufficient interest in CotM at large, Bob Marley's entries were not completed.
  • Ennio Morricone (July-August 2007)
  • [unknown] (September 2007-January 2008)
  • Benny Goodman (February-March 2008)

Community Project