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This article was nominated for deletion on 9 September 2010 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

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If you are writing an article on a music-related topic and want a link to Discogs.com, there are several templates:

Template:Discogs artist
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Hope this is helpful!--Larrybob (talk) 19:08, 11 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have appended Discogs master to your list. — Ekans ^talk @ 05:06, 18 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have recently fought to have them all kept on WP, after some ill-thinking editor thought they should all be removed: battle over — thankfully 100% voted to keep! In the process added some documentation to them too. Jimthing (talk) 14:44, 16 December 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Permitted?

I don't read anything on Discogs on the Wikipedia:External_links/Perennial_websites-page, so it is permitted all the way to use as a source? 83.85.143.141 (talk) 02:26, 24 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I signed in to Discogs and spent some time entering my own collection of LPs and have noticed that Discogs uses Wikipedia as a source so be careful. Jodosma (talk) 22:15, 26 December 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, you can use it as a source, as entries on the Discogs database are verified by multiple users who own or have in their possession a copy of said release. In fact it is often more accurate than so-called other private music databases, where the data is only added by one editor from info often submitted by record companies and/or distributors, that often contain simple factual errors, which may not be corrected later, unlike Discogs actively encourages. Discogs also has info on rare pressings (e.g. coloured vinyl editions, cover differences, et al.) and error releases and suchlike (e.g. mispressings, promos, et al.), that other databases don't. Jimthing (talk) 16:46, 15 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Actually I've just had a number of article citations removed from articles. They were added in good faith, but from the description above, Dicogs clearly falls foul of WP:UGC and is probably an unreliable source - which is quite anooying as I found it really useful. Cnbrb (talk) 09:12, 31 May 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Those editors are wrong, I'm afraid. WP:UGC specifically says "generally unacceptable" not "completely unacceptable", and as has been said before above, Discogs data gets verified by multiple owners of each release checking each release's data is correct, "as per what's on the release". It shouldn't be used for non-release citations (e.g. info taken from the "Profile" section), as that's unverified info that cannot be taken from an actual item's data. Jimthing (talk) 11:20, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Remixers links

Why is not possible to get into the remixer's profile from the tune's page in Discogs? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 161.111.59.48 (talk) 08:26, 8 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discogs.com is NOT usable for citations

Discogs is a commercial sales website and its discographies are user-generated without editorial oversight. It's specifically prohibited under Wikipedia policy WP:NOTRSMUSIC. KokoPhantom (talk) 17:16, 6 November 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Except that's not true, as items are verified by many users who own each item on the site to be exactly "as per release". That's literally the point of the website and how it operates. Jimthing (talk) 10:58, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Criticism

Discogs does not allow selling/buying of items it deems "unofficial", unlike e.g. Amazon or Ebay. Additionally, that isn't even the case for ALL unofficial items. Also some items are banned from selling/buying for (apparently) political reasons, again without rhyme, reason or explanation. Definitely should be mentioned here, as this is impacting the site's status as potential master music release database. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.170.86.132 (talk) 14:58, 12 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

No it isn't. All items can and are available to be added to the database, however some items are banned from being sold on Discogs for quite obvious legitimate reasons: Digital releases (obviously); bootlegs of legitimate releases; Far-right/hate-speech releases. Everything else should be available for sale. Jimthing (talk) 11:07, 30 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Discogs images no longer downloadable

As of about August 2021, Discogs images can no longer be accessed from Discogs.com via tools such as qsniyg.github.io/maxurl/. I do not know how they serve images now. Rwlesses (talk) 12:58, 16 September 2021 (UTC) (ex-fantailfan on Wikipedia, https://www.discogs.com/user/cartologist on Discogs)[reply]