#5273: Annotations, tags, and other currently ignored data points should be
considered when testing for "emptiness"
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Reporter: BrianFreud | Owner:
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: MusicBrainz Server | Version:
Keywords: | Browser: Netscape, Firefox, Mozilla (Gecko)
Os: Linux |
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Currently, an artist or label can have an extensive annotation, yet no ARs
or releases. Modbot considers such an artist to be "empty" and to auto-
remove it, and a similarly "empty but not empty" label becomes an autoedit
when removal is attempted. This discounts the annotation (and tags, etc)
as being in any way "valuable" data.
I would suggest that, if an annotation (or other currently ignored data
point) exists, that edit become votable, rather than autoedit. (Or, to
avoid modbot continually attempting to remove the same artists/labels over
and over, leave these to a report and editors to handle manually.) An
annotation cannot be removed, once added, so an artist with an annotation,
but nothing else, can never be, under these rules, "totally empty", but
anyone going to the trouble to blank out an artist with annotation but
nothing else could just as easily manually enter a removal edit.
This would prevent data loss, and such artist/labels with annotation, but
nothing else, could quite easily also be "fixed" in their "semi-emptiness"
by the addition of a single AR - thus leading to an improvement/increase
in the overall data, without losing the data that currently is lost by
simply discounting such data points and removing those artists/labels.
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