The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #48035   Message #720838
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
31-May-02 - 08:47 PM
Thread Name: DTStudy: A Proposal - part 2
Subject: RE: DTStudy: A Proposal - part 2
For Guest's benefit, the proposal so far is that "Study" threads are a means of correcting and expanding entries already in the DT. New threads dealing with other songs continue as they always have; unedited and cumulative, awaiting harvesting for the database.

I don't think that it would be practicable to single some new threads out for special treatment at this stage; what we would hope is that harvesters will wait a while for information to accumulate rather than harvest prematurely as has often happened in the past, which is one of the reasons why so many corrections to the database now need to be made.

For myself, I am very reluctant to post lyrics in languages other than English unless I can provide decent translations (though I have done it from time to time in response to specific requests) and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that no song should be harvested until a tune has been provided for it. That's another issue, though, and not my decision.