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Feedback / Re: Erroneous Composer Attributions (Koji Kondo)
« on: August 11, 2020, 03:15:22 AM »It's hard to say, because I can't find the difference between this "old URL" vs. the new one. I can't find a timestamp or anything that'll tell me if certain arrangements are just old, I can only guess based on my own personal recollection on how long I've seen them on this site (which is very, very rough), or the quality of the arrangement itself. Some have very erroneous note spelling and aren't properly beamed (likely didn't know how to use Finale or whatever software they used), and so it leads me to believe they're just "old."There are multiple old URLs, but the most common ones are "ninsheetm.us" and "ninsheetmusic.tk". Like Latios said, ones that are "NinSheetMusic.org", and even more specifically ones with "https" instead of "http" are our most recent sheets.
Furthermore, I don't know what "old" means. How recent were these new policies in place? Are we talking the last five years? Ten years?Our current standards were put in place in around 2014, so the last 6 years or so. At that time, there was a bit over 2000 sheets, so that is why there's still a high frequency of these kinds of errors.
And I think that's really the crux of the problem that I bring up. Sure, there could be "lack of enthusiasm," but how? If someone is spending hours and hours transcribing and arranging these tunes (even the worst ones take some amount of time), does it really hurt to just do a quick Google search to credit the right person? Fact is, this person must've spent some time Googling something, as that's a highly specific credit to give. Yukio Kaneoka is a rather old staff member at Nintendo who worked on games such as the original Mario Bros. arcade game and Donkey Kong.You'd be surprised, actually. It's very easy to just find or create MIDI files of video game tracks and just dump them in Finale; that's how we end up with such wonderful surprises like this, another "Koji Kondo" original. It's very easy to just create template files in Finale with the same composer/copyright info and just dump MIDIs into them without a care for the music or engraving, let alone details like the composer. People can and will be lazy when they can get away with it - no one bothered to even do a quick search back then, and it's something updaters still have to sometimes bug people about on current submissions. While we are a site founded on the enthusiasm of gamers/musicians, we've only really required that enthusiasm since 2014.
Like Latios and Yug Guy mentioned, we are entirely aware of the many, many errors on the site, but we prefer to correct them along with everything else (hence replacement submissions and our current replacement project that Yug mentioned - check it out, a lot of your examples are actually part of that project and will be replaced soon). There's no point in just fixing the composer info if the music itself is wrong, it's just a waste of time - unless of course a sheet is recent, and then we'll fix it as quickly as possible.
That brings me to this next point:
Even the "King of Hyrule" one is a bit wrong, as it credits Kenta Nagata when he played no role in the Breath of the Wild soundtrack. It's a composition that comes from Koji Kondo, and it was arranged by Manaka Kataoka, Breath of the Wild's primary composer. This one can't be an old arrangement, as the game came out three years ago.I actually very much agree with this, a lot of times arrangers here will put official arrangers as "composers" when they're really not; I'm usually a big stickler about keeping this information separate but not everyone here is. You are right that it's one of our current standard sheets.
Hopefully this makes sense, but ask away if you have more questions.