I am a student in Sydney, Australia. My music knowledge probably stems from borrowing a rock music encyclopedia one night and reading it cover to cover over the weekend; up until I was 11 I was a pure classical junkie thanks to my piano teacher. I am a fastidious grammar fascist. I know traditional Chinese, but my simplified is quite dodgy, strangely enough.

My name on MusicBrainz is dirtyboots. I have an interest in style issues (probably because I'm crap at programming and it makes more sense to me than development).

Things I have been progressively, on/off correcting in the database

• "bonus" designations (most of this done with the help of rcon, occasional checks needed to clean up incoming data)

• stuff that should be on non-album track names that aren't, but were shoved in the mod note then ignored

• multi-volume series with botched names

• cleaning up botched live bootleg names that should be in "date: location" format

• cleaning up the Various Artists section. This is easily the most irritating job I've done on the database so far.

• cleaning up individual artists

Things I would do if I wasn't quite as lazy

• check Chinese data and sortnames

• check that all items in a series exist and their titles are standardised

• ask TarragonAllen about:

  • use of commas after other punctuation in titles

  • use of "date: location" format in live bootlegs that are named with only that information

Help in any of the above would be appreciated.

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