Hi,

I noticed recently that there are some songs that have tags and games that are slightly off by one letter or space, which cause information about the game to be unavailable. For example, Zinle's song has "Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney" in its games, while other songs have "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney," with colons. While the difference may seem small, it means that boxart is unavailable and (more importantly) that search results for Ace Attorney remixes will not include Zinle's music.

Perhaps someone would be willing to offer suggestions to address this issue. The first way that comes to mind for me is to appoint someone, perhaps Shredster, to every few days review the new songs that were submitted and fix any tags or games that are slightly misspelled, and contact the artist to correct issues that are obvious errors but for which there is no obvious solution.

Another possible option is to begin tracking edit history for tags and games, and turn those fields into wiki-style "anyone can edit anything" where experience points would be credited for people fixing these issues. The ability would be limited to logged-in users who already have attained a certain amount of experience, ensuring that people with a stake in the site's success are making the edits. People who make malicious edits could then be easily banned and their accounts terminated, but I would doubt there would be an issue. The downside of this solution is that the artist and the other editors may disagree on tags for a song, and an edit war could result.

Unfortunately, I'm a bit busy covering my own hide to look out for incorrect song tags ATM.
The best idea I can come up with is a Google-like "Did you mean X?" prompt for when you enter a game name extremely similar to another game's name (Did you mean "Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney"?) alongside the suggested game name's box art. The box art would also help differentiate between multiple games of the same name (I.E. Sonic The Hegdehog for the Genesis, GameGear, and PS360).

I don't have a particular opinion on the tags things atm, but I do have issue with the Tag's arts being changed...For example, with my submission to the compo going on right now, it used the boxarts of the PW games, but now it's just using some random in-game screenshots of the AA games instead.

As a matter of fact, the changed hasn't just applied to my submissions, so I'm not sure if the tags associated with the boxart is being part of the problem or not...

The problem with the boxart is that Giantbomb changed their API recently without warning, and all of their image links suddenly went missing. I had to do an emergency update on Sunday, which took down the site for a few hours. But apparently they changed the order of their images. Whereas before the last image was always the boxart, now the image order appears to be random.

I'll have to investigate if there is any pattern to Giantbomb's images. This is one of the reasons I hate dealing with third party APIs. They change to add "features" that you don't need, which break existing stuff that works great, and waste developer time.