Biographies Needing Attention

Comments by Ken, Steve and Jose noted and agreed

Btw where were you Steve during the weekend? HRH was a blast :-)


Edited by aapatsos - November 20 2017 at 12:23

Ian & Luca (I realize Greg may be on hold for a while)

Guys, we look forward to have your feedback on last comments - any tips before we declare take-off ?

I'll add another one: I usually include hiperlinks to  related artists, e.g. band members individual pages, took this from my mentor Eugene and it is hiper convenient (think of newcomers exploring a genre !)

^ Not "teach", just share the knowledge...

I'll PM you so you can keep it safe and locked, ready to use (anybody else ???)

The task seems less casual than I thought it would be and a whole lot more daunting, to be honest. My doctor's advice after my stroke is to avoid stress, which includes potential visits from Dirty Harry.

Damn the doctor's advice, I wish Harry would hurry up and get it over with.

I will say that I did take the time to start going through Indo-Prog/ Raga Rock to look for bios that I think need revision (I personally don't like to edit people's work unless there are glaring-to-me errors, and if I do edit I don't like to put my name as having updated it).

I recommend a topic in the collab zone to keep track of changes.

I mean that we could have a thread in the collab zone to discuss this more privately, and with ones that the updater decides to majorly rewrite, we could paste those unaltered bios in that thread and link to our changes. It may be that the collab who added the artists will not like our changes and decide to make changes him or herself (I don't want people to feel publicly shamed in some cases -- I know I've written crap ones). With minor changes, such as editing grammar, adding a bit of info, minor updating, and adding links, I don't think it matters much. Incidentally, when it's an original bio, I look at editing them a bit like editing someones review (it's that person's intellectual property by my standards and I would want to be careful when dealing with their property-- that's not how the site sees it, mind you, nor is it a legal position).

I’m only personally concerned with major changes when I believe that a collab wrote an original bio, and still see no problem with updating/ expanding on those.   That’s about my personal comfort level.   Many of the worst bios have been ones that have been copied from the bands and read as PR pieces, though we have also had original ones that read almost like propaganda, I know a good bio should be informative and objective. I rather made the mistake in ones I wrote of putting too much of my personality and opinions in them in an effort to make them more unique., so they acted too much as reviews.

I'm still game, just percolating ideas at the moment.  Are we supposed to have started or are we waiting for approval from a few?  Also, when you say links to related artists, do you mean links to their PA pages?  I think that's what I gathered

yes I think I might need help with clickable links since I don't think the bio editor makes it easy to do this like our wonderful full reply editor