Label Annotation

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Overview

A Label Annotation is user contributed text attached to a specific label entry.

Suggested Content

A Label Annotation can hold information about a label that does not fit into the fields of the database.

The following uses are suggested:

  • Trivia:
    • Prestige was known as "The Junky Label"
  • Textual historical facts:
    • Debut catalog was offered to Fantasy Records by Charles Mingus as a "wedding present"
  • Additional disambiguation: identically named labels are usually distinguished thanks to a short label comment. Sometimes, though, it may be useful to provide additional information, or special warnings.
    • There are at least four different Dial Records, and you should be extra careful when deciding to which you attribute a release.
  • Miscellaneous editing warnings or informations:
    • BYGActuel is correct and should not be modified to Actuel
  • Additional comment about the state of the informations attached to the label entry:
    • Badly lacking historical information about Bird Notes. If you have some information, please provide them or drop a mail to editor dmppanda
  • To do list: list of pending work, draft, data fragments awaiting to be properly added. You should use the word TODO, as to make your list easily find-able via a search on annotations.
  • Open issues to resolve: if you think something is wrong, but you're not sure or don't want to fix it yourself, you can write a short note to warn others about it. You may use the word FIXME before your note.
  • Data that can't fit in the fields of the database, but should, due to a current technical limitation: we actually have no way to specify non continuous multiple periods of activity for a label.
    • Blue Note went dormant during the late 70s, before it was revived during the 80s.

Content you mustn't add

You mustn't add copyrighted content copied from other resources, be they online or printed. More generally, you really shouldn't copy/paste any kind of content, unless it's purely factual.

Label annotation style

At that time there is no official (neither recommended) style for Label Annotations. We may later provide such style indications if there is really a need for them.

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