What to do about spelling errors in the database?

jhfong · Post by **jhfong** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 3:33 am

I had an idea to do a video to Cyndi Lauper's "True Colors", so I did a search to see if anyone else had used the song before. There isn't an entry in the database for "Cyndi Lauper - True Colors", but there are two under the name *Cindy* Lauper.

So whenever I get around to making the video I was thinking of, I've got three choices:

1) Create a new song entry for "True Colors" under Cyndi Lauper. There are already a couple of songs that are duplicated between the "Cyndi" and "Cindy" categories.

2) Add it to the existing "Cindy Lauper - True Colors" entry, even though I know the name is spelled wrong.

3) Ask Phade to reclassify all the "Cindy Lauper" songs and the videos associated with them under "Cyndi Lauper", however long it'll take for him to get around to it.

What do you think I should do?

downwithpants · Post by **downwithpants** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 4:17 am

i would say use cyndi lauper. it's not your fault the others spelled the name wrong.

i think phade is working on an "aliasing" thing. so alternative names are returned together, like "dragon ball" and "dragonball."

jbone · Post by **jbone** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 11:44 am

Each time I've made a video to an existing but misspelled song or series/film, I've created a new entry using the correct spelling.

jhfong · Post by **jhfong** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 9:19 pm

OK, I'm going to create a new song entry when I create the video... I just wonder if these kinds of spelling errors make videos harder to find. There used to be an aliasing feature for anime titles when "Search By" was working, but even then it didn't apply to music artists. I mean, have you ever tried searching under t.A.T.u, t.A.T.u., T.A.T.U and TATU? They've got four separate entries.

VegettoEX · Post by **VegettoEX** » Sun Nov 02, 2003 11:23 pm

I'm with jbone. If something's wrong, it's your job to make sure YOU have the correct info for YOUR videos.

When Meri and I did "Redemption," there were already a few videos that used the theme song to "Angel." Unfortunately, half of them didn't know the artist, and half of them didn't know the official title.

So we entered them in, ourselves. Poo on those who don't do the research / buy the CDs to know what the Hell they're talking about :P