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 NotAProghead wrote:

^ OK, but "put yourself in my place. I'm the law and order" (c) - how we (E&O Team) can demand from non-collabs to provide full info if one collaborator writes "Instrumentation is not clear at the moment", another collab adds an album with empty track list etc?
After all we have guidelines (standard, policy) on adding albums and try to follow them as much as possible. Don't we?

Within the guidelines is this subsection of the Lineup/musicians section that addresses the issue specifically.

"....3.10 If there is no data in this section then it should contain the phrase "Not available at present, if you can help with the details, please contact the site"...."

I have not included those exact words when details are missing. Will do so in the future.

Many albums have no lineup listed. Except for a few outliers, I am confident that SC's are at least as diligent as I am. i.e. where info is not available on bandcamp, discogs, allmusic and so on, seeking album sleeve images where the information might be hidden, contacting the artist directly (done this myself countless times), etc. But many times nothing comes back. It is frustrating when adding expansive discographies to not have the pertinent info available. And don't get me started about the inability of artists to provide even the scantest of biographical info (which is sometimes what I have to depend on for "best guess" lineups).

The home page has this quasi-mission statement
"PROG ARCHIVES intends to be the most complete and powerful progressive rock resource."

With this statement in mind, it's my opinion that having a complete discography is the most important aspect to achieving that. As long as we have that INTENT of being complete and proceed with due diligence, none of us can really be expected to hold ourselves to a higher standard than the artists and publishers hold themselves. I know that sucks for the E&O team (you as the only SC now ) who gets these correction requests on the back end. I will make an effort to look in and do corrections when I can. 

On the subject of no tracks displayed? That's an entirely different issue and I definitely feel that albums without that data should be left out until that info is available. Its really hard to claim an album even exists without any content whatsoever.

And I have also encountered albums with no track times, even on the album cover and label. I recently had an older album that only had a youtube "full album" and had to go in and find the beginning and ending of each track to obtain a total. I would not be too harsh toward someone leaving times out under those circumstances.

Anyway, this is just my take on the issue. I will ask the rest of the admin team to weigh in. 