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"How does Discogs maintain the quality of information? With strict guidelines"...
nik: They are guidelines, not rules.
It is important that the guidelines are seen as a little bit flexible (otherwise, they would be called rules).

Diognes_The_Fox:
I am in favor of whatever allows people the freedom to add descriptors in a manner that they find acceptable, but can be identifiable to others. I don't want to have to go through and change all my subs as a result of this update, nor do I want to force that upon everyone else. If there is an existing schema, I'd prefer if people adhere to that rather than edit everything to match their preferred formatting, so as long as what's there initially actually works
They are unlinked descriptor fields, as long as they properly describe the contents of the field, Camel Caps or regular grammatical methods are fine, do not edit releases to change these based on personal preference, please.

Diognes_The_Fox on BAOI variant sets:
If there's an existing format, go with that and don't change everything to suit your personal preference.

List of barcodes that don't scan the same as their text

Tasks:
☑️ Enter collection (~3000)
☑️ Improve collection primary images
⤑ Improve collection entries (first pass)
🔲 Add Bandcamp purchases
🔲 Fix collection 'Other' performer credits
🔲 Improve collection entries (final pass)

Master creation
Submissions - My Collection
Submissions - My Contributions

Formatting:
[DADC logo]® Made in USA⭑Digital Audio Disc Corp. (see this thread)

Master runout list guidance
Master list of runout information
...the long/full list

Undocumented guidelines: https://web.archive.org/web/20200814134758/https://reference.discogs.com/wiki/undocumented-guidelines

The Matrix (one opinion)
One line is ok; split is ok, but use Matrix rather than Other
Side-specific "Label Matrix Numbers" are not secondary cat numbers - see https://www.discogs.com/forum/thread/766051?message_id=7602699#7602699

Comparison notes belong in the MR

Packaging terms: https://web.archive.org/web/20220511162435/https://reference.discogs.com/wiki/packaging
Digipaks aren't gatefolds

Administered by -> Published By

Price Codes include prices

We are the 501 ... or the 704

Move BAOI static fields to top when adding additional info

Maintain existing BAOI style

Capitol Records, RCA, and Columbia Records album cover codes

Compound credit roles

Recording/Mixing/Master Engineer -> Recorded By/Mixed By/Mastered By

Legacy artwork credits discussion

Island Masters is only a Series

If a release is distributed in Europe, AND the release explicitly calls out the UK as a region (for example, "Distributed in Europe and the UK by etc etc"), then and only then use the "UK and Europe" tag.

RTD

"℗ Original sound recording made by" is purely copyright legalese

All cat#s are valid, even original subsumed cat#s on vinyl releases.

Neither Amazon nor eBay are considered reliable sources for release dates

Price codes: https://web.archive.org/web/20220329191822/https://reference.discogs.com/wiki/price-codes-distribution-codes
Label codes: https://web.archive.org/web/20210801200905/https://www.discogs.com/group/thread/524527
10 L H ...

The (current) final word on SRC CD mastered/pressed; all generations together

Vinyl labels only
CDs matrix only
J-Card images

WEA BAOI

Mastered by Customatrix : lower case o / ova;

Incomplete U for EMI Records (looking like a J)
A instead of Λ or ∴ [Columbia Records Pressing Plant, Terre Haute]

Runout 320 after 1972: PRS Hannover

'Other' is not for instruments

Rights societies all on one line: SACEM SACD SDRM SGDL
Include trademark: SABAM TM

Box Set / All Media should always be at the bottom of the stack.
Box Set items get listed individually

Variants are numbered only after there's more than one, of course

When country is just Europe, not UK+Europe

JVC Matrix block code

Friday wasn't always global release day - before 2015 it was Mondays for releases in France and the United Kingdom, Tuesdays in US and Canada, Wednesdays in Japan, and Fridays, for example in Germany and Australia. (Older US history: https://web.archive.org/web/20211208221837/https://www.billboard.com/pro/album-release-day-why-tuesday )

Styles

Eno's Obscure label: Index of release variants

RD cannot be before 1994 (see RSG §5.2.d)

Notes: fix misspelling
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ocured ocurred occured
refered reffered refferred
cercled
seperate
preceed preceeding

The end of the Discogs Blog: https://web.archive.org/web/20160209063019/https://www.discogs.com/blog/

Strawberry runouts

Arbitrary exact searching: example

DB API: https://www.discogs.com/developers/#page:database

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