So, I started today to look at noobies and landed on this edit > https://musicbrainz.org/edit/68511818 [One of three] My first impulse was to vote no and find out if he was just trying to add to his bio. After visiting his links it appears he is self-promoting. Since you probably have run into this before, how should I handle this?
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The person is not a musician so you would explain them that MB is a music database and we don’t create artists when there are no relationships with any existing recording, release or performance.
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Shout out to @chaban - seems like for years he’s been voting on a lot of my edits, popping up on pretty much every video game artist ever, and seems to edit daily? Not sure what else he’s up to but huge impact on video game music here for sure!
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Oops, it seems I’ve forgotten to post a shout out last week and lost membership before joining fully 
Well, chaban would’ve been an obvious choice for me too: Every time they vote Abstain instead of Yes on my edits, I know I could’ve done better 
In addition nobody (except the devs) seems to know all the tricks and traps of MB as good as them – almost every time I had a problem or spotted a bug, it was already reported by chaban.
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One of the editors I admire most is @oparin1954, because they do an incredible job by uploading the complete artwork for many big box sets and collector’s editions – sometimes more than a hundred high-res images per release 
I don’t know how many hours this takes, but they must scan much faster than I do and therefore I really appreciate that work 
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Shout out to @jesus2099, who walks among us dispensing user scripts that I forget I have until I use a different browser and get confused! Not to mention all the edits…
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In the lonely world of my open edits pages there is sometimes a small ‘1’ in the darkness… that is often @Fabe56 checking in on my edits and leaving a vote <3
There are many other who I will mention eventually but Fabe56 is the current regular!
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Héhé thanks @aerozol, even if sometimes I pass quickly and abstain a lot 
And thank you, too, for all the excellent work you’ve done here.
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Shout out to @Akeldama, who continuously cleans up DistroKid (and other digital distributor labels). They are also uploading loads of high quality cover art scans, add new releases, fix and merge stuff.
What’s more is that they make use of the voting system 
When I started cleaning up DistroKid there were ca. 10 pages. I was nearly half way through and the next time I looked all the remaining stuff was done by them.
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Wanted to give a huge shout to @rdswift who has been consistently helpful when people ask questions on the forums, and is one of the few amazing people who came as editors and then stayed to put their criticisms into action - particularly with his work around improving documentation.
The reason Bob stands out for me personally is because we seriously butted heads on something early on but I am so glad he stuck around 
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@viper666 is another regular who votes on my stuff on and off - for years now!
Way back they first popped up on my subscriptions, with tons of edits related to metal artists, usually uploading excellent scans 
Too good.
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I’m glad to be part of this awesome community while contributing with what i can 
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@aerozol, welcome back to the MB community team this week, but also for cracking 100k edits, only took you 11 years 
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@Chilkara, 4 pages of edits on Austin Wintory that I got to watch happen, always so nice when you get a notification and then new edits are popping up when you’re there!!
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Thank you loujin, your excellent scripts helped a lot to reach it!
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Big shout out to @ROpdebee who did a superb job dissecting and cleaning up the mess of agency work codes
I’ve already noticed them at the end of last year doing countless of style related fixes, merging and voting quite a lot.
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Just wanted to say a personal thanks to @chaban for quickly approving some of my edits to fix featured artists in track titles. I don’t know how they do it, but somehow my new edits are constantly getting approved the next time I check on them.
chaban is a name known even by some of my good friends who edit on MB. Your massive contributions and donated time don’t go unnoticed my friend.
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Shout out to @Albino-Gaming who is relentlessly chugging away adding one release after another almost every day incl. cover art and ISRCs.
Also making fixes to existing stuff, merging dupes and upgrading cover art of digital releases that falls into their area of interest.
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