Re: ASIN Clarification

On 21/04/2009 6:08 a.m., Pavan Chander wrote:

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 5:33 PM, Andrew John Hughes <gnu_andrew@...> wrote:

http://musicbrainz.org/doc/HowToChangeCoverArt

'Also make sure you don't add URLs to products that are only sold by
custom sellers (those that don't have an Amazon price). '

Still valid today or not?
 

I don't think it does/should apply; that line seems to have been added before we used MoinMoin, so the history regarding that line doesn't exist, but it looks like someone's opinion because it doesn't appear on the "official" page for the AR.

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/AmazonRelationshipType

Pavan Chander // navap

It's still somewhat valid and been the practice of at least some people since I've been involved with MB; regardless of what AmazonRelationshipType says. Seller pages generally aren't available across domains; the cover art is never available and the information is unreliable and most often incomplete. It feels like they are not within the "spirit" of what an ASIN should add to the data set. There's a lot of discussion on the point on the Talk page for AmazonRelationshipType.

That page, and the rules about when or not to use ASINs have been in limbo forever due to disagreement between the consensus-requiring community about when it is appropriate to use. So we have a vague guideline and essentially undocumented style due to people voting-by-personal-feeling :-/

Chad

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