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I would not.I don't care to have anyone else in the world to know what I've got, and I know all my ponies by heart. I'd also be wary of committing a significant chunk of time to an online database that has no guarantee of existing in 1, 5, or 10 years, nor now extensively it'd be updated or how accurate. Crowd-sourced editing is nice in theory, but the MLP collector community doesn't seem very active in that role thus far. That said, I do wish you well on your journey, maybe you'll beat the odds!
As for the countries I agree that listing ponies as belonging to a single country doesn't really work. Especially with the European ponies. I like the idea of associating ponies with multiple countries. Maybe "sold in" or "region"?
Quote from: Taffeta on September 27, 2018, 01:20:10 PMI think a checklist is a great idea. It's something that a lot of people would get really good use out of, especially the ability to use to track collections.I have only looked at the G1 section, because it's the only section I know enough about to comment! LOL f I have one constructive suggestion, it's geographical. It would be helpful to to move away from the binary sense that ponies are US or European. That disincludes a lot of collectors and makes it confusing for many more, because of how ponies were actually sold. It is a big job to figure out where each pony was actually sold, so it would probably be less work to just take away the regional aspect. Also Europe isn't a country. That kind of made me uncomfortable One other suggestion, purely cosmetic - is there a way to make either a search system viable or a way to get more easily between sets?Silly Taf. Everyone knows Europe is a city. I mean I'm sure we all paid attention in geometry class.
I think a checklist is a great idea. It's something that a lot of people would get really good use out of, especially the ability to use to track collections.I have only looked at the G1 section, because it's the only section I know enough about to comment! LOL f I have one constructive suggestion, it's geographical. It would be helpful to to move away from the binary sense that ponies are US or European. That disincludes a lot of collectors and makes it confusing for many more, because of how ponies were actually sold. It is a big job to figure out where each pony was actually sold, so it would probably be less work to just take away the regional aspect. Also Europe isn't a country. That kind of made me uncomfortable One other suggestion, purely cosmetic - is there a way to make either a search system viable or a way to get more easily between sets?
I’m sorry for «nagging» about this over and over again. I can understand that it might seem a little too much over something that might be perceived as unimportant in the long run. But I’ve spent years myself trying to understand my childhood collection and ponies picked up in the wild based on US information. The main issue always actually being country of release and year of release. I still come across collectors outside US who tries to work within the structure of the US release plan, because they still belieber this to be the correct one for them as well and it is demotivating and messy because it is not the same as the rest of the world.
I’m sorry for «nagging» about this over and over again. I can understand that it might seem a little too much over something that might be perceived as unimportant in the long run. But I’ve spent years myself trying to understand my childhood collection and ponies picked up in the wild based on US information. The main issue always actually being country of release and year of release. I still come across collectors outside US who tries to work within the structure of the US release plan, because they still belieber this to be the correct one for them as well and it is demotivating and messy because it is not the same as the rest of the world. It is of course your website, and you should of course put it up as you like. But if you do decide to keep US as country instead of the country on the hooves, could you perhaps put in a disclaimer that your site is using a US centric model in identifying ponies? At least that might help to increase the understanding that it is different ways of structuring releases and ponies
Thank you and don't worry, you're not nagging. I do agree that the U.S. centric model does not seem to work well for non-US collectors and for organizing ponies that do not conform to the traditional US release schedule. I do have a field on each pony called "origin" which is the country where the pony was manufactured based on their hoof marks. This would conform to the Hong Kong, China, Italy structure. Maybe it would make more sense to display that more prominently on the site. And instead of having a category called "country" use "released in" or "sold in" to document where the ponies were sold as far as we know.
Quote from: katrine2309 on September 29, 2018, 04:45:28 AMI’m sorry for «nagging» about this over and over again. I can understand that it might seem a little too much over something that might be perceived as unimportant in the long run. But I’ve spent years myself trying to understand my childhood collection and ponies picked up in the wild based on US information. The main issue always actually being country of release and year of release. I still come across collectors outside US who tries to work within the structure of the US release plan, because they still belieber this to be the correct one for them as well and it is demotivating and messy because it is not the same as the rest of the world. You and I think and feel the same on this. I think it's genuinely the case that a lot of folk don't realise how different releases are and that it's not one integral set of dates and sets but a whole myriad of them that intersect and weave a complex web.