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Is there a way to separate email addresses which someone looked for and determined didn't exist, versus email addresses not yet looked for? I see a couple of options:

• Delete the email entry when no email is found.
• Replace Email with Contact or add a Contact option. We could then provide a link to artist contact forms or myspace pages.

Otherwise it seems people could waste time looking for the same email addresses. Thoughts? Other ideas?

Kelli (talk/contribs) 18:25, June 29, 2008 (AKDT)

How about marking it as "Looked for but not found" That way someone could look again at a later date to see if the artist has gotten an email address. CooleyBufo (talk/contribs) 12:07, June 30, 2008 (AKDT)

Resolution (I hope)

Okay. Things moved around. Here it is:

Category:Artists with unknown email address - no one has tried looking for these yet
Category:Artists with no email address - someone tried but found nothing

Here are your choices on the artist page for email:

• Email=xyz@abc.com (the normal thing you'd think for an email address)
• Email=http://www.joeblow.com/mymail.htm (point to a URL email page on the artist's site)
• Email=unknown (no one has ever looked for an email - the default when a new artist page is created)
• Email=none (someone has looked and found no email address or webpage for email - artist is likely to be deleted)

Jim (talk/contribs) 22:45, June 30, 2008 (AKDT)

Perfect! Thanks. Kelli (talk/contribs) 07:28, July 1, 2008 (AKDT)

CD Baby and MySpace

I consider CD Baby and MySpace to be valid forms of contact, but wanted to see if there is an "official" policy before I spend more time on this. Kelli (talk/contribs)

Ugh. Definitely yes on CDBaby as it's linked to an email account that is used for the business/money stuff so most artists are going to try to keep it going. MySpace? Someone else will have to say. I figure most people turn off any contact via MySpace.  ??? Jim (talk/contribs) 18:07, July 20, 2008 (AKDT)

Not in my experience. I've contacted several artists (even Peter Mulvey) via MySpace. I figure that is a big benefit of MySpace. And if it is their only site, it wouldn't make sense to turn off the contact ability. Kelli (talk/contribs) 18:09, July 20, 2008 (AKDT)

Okay - makes sense. Go for it. The only other downside I know of is that when it comes time to get the artists to come to WWR and approve their artist pages and songs etc. then a volunteer team will have to manually write all the people without standard @ email addresses. Jim (talk/contribs) 18:09, July 21, 2008 (AKDT)