What’s current practice for entering rough/fuzzy dates?
eg work composed sometime between 1280 - 1350 CE?
Or 13th century writing down of score/lyrics?
One of you helpful types shared this already but I can’t find where.
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It’s just not possible at the moment. There are two related tickets: MBS-3645 and MBS-2954. My preference would be allowing dates like 156?. A circa checkbox would only be useful in some occasions.
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I’m thinking that the 3 available options are:
- ditch the data
- put it in an annotation
- fudge the accuracy and put it in the dates field
Anyone want to make a case for 3.?
That is my feelings preferred option but it seems not to be good database practice and I love good database practices.
failing that I’ll go for the annotation
I would definitely add an annotation, not matter if you do 3 or not. Not sure about entering the date. Pro: It would at least sort more correctly and give a clear information how old a release is approximately. Con: It claims an accuracy where there is none.
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I like how Wikidata do it: they have the date, and then a “precision” field that says how precise it is. Know the exact hour? Great! Know only the millennium? Well, less great, but ok! I don’t think it’d be easy to add that though 
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Héhé I was pretty sure adding a date like 199? was possible. But failed 
This happen for La Perla, a girl about whom we have very little information…
The woman who cleans the bar Eshavira (where Carolina bartends) has a 16 year old daughter, La Perla, known for her voice.
Several years later MBS-3645 is “closed (Won’t Fix)” and MBS-2954 “open (Unresolved)”.
Fuzziness as in 20?5-12-08 is of course hard to handle under the hood, but for editors, per-box-wildcard is allowed: 工藤勝洋 & Rosenberg’s Str4 5 (of which Rosenberg could be sharpened to “1949-[<3]-24”).
But there is some presumed antique litter still on display, f.i. Πλάτων (Plato) with death year currently ‘[unknown]’, an option otherwise unavailable (can’t find its setting in his Editing history).
That’s just marking “ended” without a date.
Ah, thanks. Had it from recent rambling through the special purpose format.
Edit: So this one it is: Edit #50629010 - MusicBrainz