06. The artist portal¶

Purpose 3: a rich, graphical page for every artist, with links to their own website and all of their social media. The portal follows one rule that runs through all of VeeJay: a fact is shown only after it is verified. Every page exists from the start, because it carries what the library already knows, and its links fill in as verification catches up.

6.1 The artist page¶

Every artist has a page. It shows:

• Who they are. The name, whether they are a person or a group, the country they come from, and whether a person is living or deceased or a group is active or dissolved. A field that is not known yet is left out, never filled with a guess.
• How sure VeeJay is. An identity badge and the identity score, described below.
• Where to find them. The official website and the social media accounts, once verified (6.2).
• Their music. The albums, songs and videos in your library (6.3).
• Who they are connected to. Members, bands and side projects (6.4).

The identity score is shown. A visitor sees the same scoring system that VeeJay uses itself. The page shows the artist's score from 0 to 100 and their level, Verified complete, Verified, Probable or Unconfirmed, and it shows what the score is made of: each data point, whether it has been verified, and what it is worth. Because only verified data points count, the score is a plain answer to "how much of this page can I trust?" (7.3).

Before verification. A candidate that has not been verified is never shown on the page. An artist whose links have not been verified yet has a sparse page and the level Unconfirmed, and the page fills in as research runs.

6.2 Websites and social media¶

A link on an artist's page is built from a verified identifier, never typed by hand, so it always follows the format of its service.

Each link is shown only once it is verified, by the chain of trust described in 7.2: a verified page links to it, or it is confirmed from both sides. A namesake, a fan page or a cover band is never shown as the artist.

6.3 Discography and videos¶

The page lists the artist's original studio albums, each song under the album it was first released on, with the cover art. Songs from a film, show or game are shown under their collection. Each song shows its videos: the Primary first, then the Alternates, with their thumbnails, and with the choices that tell them apart (live, remix, cover, official or fan upload). Whether the song's audio is in the library is shown too.

6.4 Members, bands and relations¶

A group's page lists its members, and a person's page lists the groups they belong to, along with backing bands, side projects and other names. These come from the relations in the database, which are stored in one direction only, with the opposite direction worked out from them.

6.5 Browsing and discovery¶

Artists, songs, albums and videos are browsed with thumbnails. They can be searched and filtered, by country, by person or group, by living or deceased and active or dissolved, and by identity level. From any page you can move to a related one: from a song to its album and its artist, from an artist to a member's own page, and from a video to its song.

6.6 Correcting what is shown¶

A wrong fact has to be fixable, and a fix has to stay fixed.

• Your correction is established. A value you enter or confirm is never replaced, shortened or overruled by a rule or a source. Its recorded source is you.
• A wrong verified link can be rejected. The candidate is kept as history, so VeeJay never checks it again, and the link disappears from the page.
• Disagreements come to you. When two verified sources disagree about a value, the decision is yours, through a review item on Needs attention (7.5).
• Nothing is changed silently. Every change to what a page shows is logged with its old value, new value and source, so it can be undone.