Contribution Guide

We want to standardize all contributions to keep things as organized and intuitive as possible. If you have ideas to change this guide, you're free to reach out. This article will introduce the various formalities that we wish to abide by.

Basic Guidelines:

• English is the site's main language. Translated articles are allowed, but we want to standardize the database around the English language. This means wherever possible, articles should be first made in English, and translated from English to other languages.
• All categories should be pluralized. If you want to categorize an article you need to add [[Category:Artists]] to your article in the source editor. If you create a new category (though this should only be done by admins) Make everything plural. Change "Artist" to "Artists" for example. If you fail to do this, it will create an entirely new category for "Artist" (as an example) and people will have a hard time finding your articles in that category.
• Speaking of categories, they can also be used as a sort of tag system for articles. For example, you should put album articles in the category of "Albums", along with its label (Like SuperTon) and other categories like genre. This helps make articles easier to discover.
• If articles have the same name, you must distinguish them in some way. Generally, we want albums to have clean names with no parenthesis included. This means you don't need to include the text (Album) in the title when making an album page. If you have a song with the same name as the album, write (Song) at the end of your article title. Lastly, if there are several instances of the same title on different works, you can differentiate them with the artist's name, or by a number (but only if the work is by the same person)
• Speaking of categories make sure to add your article to the proper categories. If you don't, your work might be wasted since it will be hard to find your page, and someone might make the same article, not knowing you made it before. If the article is an album, put it in the Albums category, Artist in Artists, and Labels... Well you get the point.
• Right now, we're basing all album articles off the Rat i Mir article, since it's nicely structured and had lots of good features. Use it as a template.
• Please write your page titles in the Latin alphabet and not Cyrillic. if we randomly use both, it makes organizing things extremely messy, and users basically need to search for it twice. Be sure to use proper special characters for article names (Example: Make sure "Živeće" in isn't spelled "Zivice" in "Živeće ovaj narod") or else you get a similar issue.
• Cassette variants are tapes with different tape shells, different j-cards, and/or different markings. If you have a variant of any tape, feel free to add it in the "variants" section. Try to make your submission consistent with other examples from other articles. You're allowed to post bootleg tapes, just don't spam them, and certainly don't post ones you make yourself.
• When adding variants order your images as follows: J-card Front, J-card Back, Cassette Side A, Cassette Side B. You're also allowed to attribute yourself as a source when adding variants.
• Do not add hypothetical scans or images without disclosure. That means don't post recreated j-cards or photoshopped album covers, unless you disclose that it's been altered. We also wish that you try to use the original images as the centerpiece of articles, even if they're horribly low resolution. However, we will accept images that have been photoshopped to remove logos that attempt to claim "copyright" on their scans. We ask that you keep the original on hand, and upload it along with your altered image for reference.
• Don't upload people's scans or tape pictures when they didn't intend to, or know that they would be published. We've seen j-card scans get leaked from private chats, just because some loser wanted to be the guy to upload it to Discogs. Similar behavior will get you banned from Savez.net. If you're uploading images on behalf of someone else, make sure you have their express permission to do so, and credit them if they wish, using the upload description.
• We actually want people to sign or differentiate their file uploads from others, by modifying the file name. We don't have an official template for this, but an acceptable example would be something similar to "Pravoslavci-jcard-Front-Generacide.png", for the album Pravoslavci. Make sure the album name comes first, followed by what it is (j-card or tape, front or back), and lastly your signature or initials. This helps us find the images easily, and give them unique names so they don't conflict with each other.
• If you're uploading very large scans, we'd appreciate if you converted them to JPEG (or JPG) format. J-card and tape scans can get up to 100mb as PNG files, and that takes a lot of bandwidth if someone wants to see the full size image.