Johannes Weißl wrote: > I give two reasons for my approval: > * The information that two MusicBrainz entities link to the same Discogs > URL is very valuable, and we get it only by normalizing the URL > * The "anv=" parameter doesn't work in cases where there are multiple > similar variations, e.g. consider we have two artists "Réne" and "Réne > Doe", while Discogs has only "Réne Doe", linking to "anv=Réne" doesn't > show us possible releases with "anv=Rene" (that would be listed under > our "Réne" artist).
Two more: * It makes it easier for people to enter, as they can just paste the URL and have it cleaned up automatically (it's quite common for people to accidentally link "Foo Bar" to "Foo Bar?anv=Foo" because Discogs doesn't make it obvious how to get a link to the main entity page) * It makes the URLs more stable - the vast majority of the ANV links we have right now are broken because Discogs changed the way they work. So +1 from me too for removing that stuff from the URLs. Nikki _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
