Re: [mb-users] ARs for references in works?

2013/10/2 Per Starbäck <[email protected]>

> >> There would probably be problems with unclear references that people
> >> wouldn't agree on, but I think it would be fun and interesting to have
> >> such information. What do you think?
> >
> > Definitely. But to be useful, we should be able to add comments in order
> to
> > explain the AR. Unfortunately, the AR structure currently does not
> support
> > comments AFAIK.
> >
> > Maybe it is time to request for a comment field on ARs. Of course, this
> > field should not be always present, I guess most of the ARs wouldn't have
> > one.
>
> Why can't ARs have annotations? Everything should be able to have
> annotations!
>

I think they could, they just currently don't. If enough users ask for it
with good arguments, this could change :-)


 > On second thought, the AR comment could simply be initialized with a
> > copy of the edit comment. I often miss the edit comment.
>
> I would like it to be easier to find the edits notes for a particular
> fact in the database, but I wouldn't like that mix. I think we should
> try to differentiate between text directed at someone who just uses
> the database to look up something and text directed to those who are
> editing the database (or want to check the sources). If a music player
> has a box where it shows "fun facts" about the work that is playing
> right now that could include a note about how this references another
> song, but you wouldn't want edit comments with sources in that box.
>

I only suggested this as a starting point, as a default value. I'd rather
have a copy of the edit comment than nothing. But I agree that often the
edit comment becomes valueless after a few years, sometimes even less,
while the AR comment should remain valid much longer. We could even have a
flag telling that the AR comment is only a copy of the edit comment and
clear that flag when the AR comment would be edited; this would allow us to
check the AR comments which need to be upgraded.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
(davitof)

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