Link vs Posting Info

19 Dec 02 - 10:30 PM (#850885)
Subject: Link vs Posting Info
From: Richie

Is it better to post a link to a site with info or lyrics or... post the info or lyrics from the site and give the site credit?

Since many sites have disappeared or moved, the links no longer work.

-Richie

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20 Dec 02 - 12:00 AM (#850923)
Subject: RE: Link vs Posting Info
From: wysiwyg

Both, when it's clearly folk music or folkie commentary or folkie information, but search the DT and old threads first to see if someone already posted it.

~Susan

(hi all, puder trubble here, not posting much if at all till after Jan. 1, pass the word if it comes up OK?)

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20 Dec 02 - 12:27 AM (#850929)
Subject: RE: Link vs Posting Info
From: Joe Offer

Here's the policy posted in the FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions):

Please remember that Mudcat is a Music Forum. We welcome discussion of all topics, but we give special emphasis to music.
If you wish to discuss other topics, you are welcome to post your own opinions. Please do not copy-paste the entire texts of lengthy non-music articles that are available elsewhere on the Internet - just post a link and summarize the article in your own words.

If you find music information or lyrics you wish to share, particularly if it is about folk music, please DO post the entire text, plus a link to where you found it.

I'd also like to ask that whenever you get information from other sources, please tell us where it came from. The Digital Tradition would be much more valuable if it had attribution for every song. We're working on adding attributions as much as we can. That's part of the reason for the DTStudy and "Origins" threads. -Joe Offer-

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20 Dec 02 - 05:50 PM (#851406)
Subject: RE: Link vs Posting Info
From: M.Ted

The trick is the term "otherwise available on the internet"--most newspapers now only allow free access to articles for 7 to 14 days--after that, you can only access them for a fee that generally runs from $1-4--that means that the discussions in   threads that refer to current news stories no longer make a lot of sense, because the articles that they link to are no longer active--

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20 Dec 02 - 09:25 PM (#851517)
Subject: RE: Link vs Posting Info
From: Joe Offer

Still, Ted, that's the policy. Our political discussions are a "current affairs" kind of thing. If some of the news/opinion links die, it won't be the end of the world. Very few people come to Mudcat to look for year-old threads on the Gore-Bush election.

We had a period when people where carrying on discussions by firing long copy-paste articles back and forth at each other, with very little exchange of personal opinion. We had to crack down, because the copy-paste stuff was crowding out the music information.

We're a music Forum, and it's the music information we seek to preserve.

-Joe Offer-

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