This is the RFV for the proposal to add "watermark" as a cover art type, to be used when images contain a watermark.
It should expire on the 11th. Nikki Am 01.03.14 18:25, schrieb Nikki:> Hello mb-style, > > Right now watermarked images are a grey area. They're technically > allowed, in that there are no guidelines saying they aren't, but in > practice they get removed or voted down for being watermarked. Sometimes > though, the best (or only image) we can find of some part of a release > is watermarked and in those cases it would be nice to be able to store > them somehow. > > For some people, including me, it really doesn't feel right to just > upload watermarked images. I can't really explain why, but I would feel > much better about it if there were a way of detecting that an image is > watermarked. Therefore I'm proposing that we add a cover art type > "watermark" which should be used when an image also contains a > watermark, so that we can upload them, but anyone not wanting to use > watermarked images can use the data to filter them out. > > How this would affect things: > - In cases where the best image we can find is not watermarked, this > would change nothing. There is no reason to keep a watermarked image > which is also poorer quality. > - In cases where the only image we can find is watermarked, this would > let us upload that image instead of having nothing. > - In cases where we have a poorer quality image without a watermark and > a better quality image with a watermark, which one is best depends on > what you want to use it for, so my recommendation would be to upload > both images, so that people can use whichever image best suits their > purposes. > > This RFC should expire on the 8th. > Ticket: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-297 > > Nikki _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
