Redisplay Messages: Compact | Brief | All | Full Show Messages: All | Without Replies| Author: | StormChaser  | | Posted: | Feb 9, 2024 21:12 | | Subject: | Adding to the Problem | | Viewed: | 268 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| Considering the recent displeasure of the community regarding variants, why is
BrickLink adding to the variant problem with new catalog entries like these?
Instead of wandering aimlessly with no plan whatsoever and still
no written guidelines for variants, it might be wiser for this website to employ
someone at a high level who is capable of crafting solid, long-term visions for
the future.
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Feb 4, 2024 18:26 | | Subject: | Next Part Variant Merges | | Viewed: | 284 times | | Topic: | General | |
| I would like to suggest these for the next round of part merges:
They seem like pretty useless distinctions.
I would also like to suggest something the site should have done before even
considering merging anything. The site should have made it quite
clear in writing in the catalog help pages what is an acceptable variant for
this website and what is not.
Otherwise, it's just up to the whim of whomever is deciding, which is no
way to run a business.
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Jan 19, 2024 09:58 | | Subject: | Anonymizing Members | | Viewed: | 221 times | | Topic: | General | |
| As many of you know, I strongly disagreed with the significant disservice done
to the people who built this website's catalog with the haphazard and poorly-handled
anonymizing of catalog contributors around the time of the sale to the LEGO Group.
Yes, this is the Bluser issue. Yep, I'm speaking about it again . . . probably
because the site has repeatedly shown its contempt and disregard for the catalog
and its contributors (most recently with its poor handling of the variant issue).
So anyway, the anonymizing was so poorly handled that by performing a couple
of basic and simple Google searches I can tell you the full name of this member
and his home address:
https://www.bricklink.com/feedback.asp?u=bb257520
There are numerous other "anonymized" members on BrickLink for whom information
can be quite easily discovered, including full name, age, home address, telephone
number, relatives, etc., etc.
Screenshot this post if you want to keep it, because the site will probably delete
the post and ban me from the forum again for expressing myself. 
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2023 16:31 | | Subject: | Games | | Viewed: | 86 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Discarded | |
| One catalog expert disagrees with me on this issue, but I am requesting that
the entire catalog team discuss this and present a unified opinion on the matter.
I also hope to hear input from other BrickLink members. Such input should definitely
have been considered in this decision (so please share your thoughts).
My opinion is that games should all be located together. When games were moved
from Sets to Gear, some were scattered throughout the catalog instead of being
categorized as games:
The rationale given to me was that only sets branded as Games would be in the
Games category. Yet even those clearly branded on the box as the Games theme
were sometimes not categorized as games:
Sets: LEGO Brand: LEGO Employee Gift: Holiday & Event: Christmas: Games
Currently, only 42 games are correctly categorized as games:
There are, by the way, other instances of set box branding ignored for the purpose
of making things easy to find. For example, these sets are all categorized as
Advent even though not all are branded that way (and, really, there is technically
no Advent branding anyway):
Why are all the advent calendars in one place? Because common sense says that
people looking for advent calendars want to see them all in one place. The same
common sense says that people looking for games want to see them all in one place.
In addition, BrickLink does not even have written guidelines governing how sets
are categorized - so it's all just the whim of the person deciding. In this
case, scattering games was simply a bad decision.
Here's another example. These sets are absolutely not Train sets. They
are City sets. Look at the pictures of the set boxes.
Notice the distinct difference in box appearance from a true train set:
But we categorize them as trains. Why were they not categorized as City:
Train: RC Train instead? Because common sense says they are trains and people
want to find all the trains together in one place.
There is more to categorization than just the box and that is why I have made
this request for a well-considered group decision. The games should have stayed
together and they should be together.
It just makes sense.
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Dec 3, 2023 14:14 | | Subject: | Use Image | | Viewed: | 85 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Completed | |
| Thanks to plenty of work over the years, your catalog has only 27 sets out of
19,134 that are missing an image.
One of those 27 sets is this one:
A member has one for sale with an image. I am requesting that a catalog expert
check to see if the member has photo sharing turned on. If so, the image can
be used.
If not, I am requesting that the member be contacted for use of the image.
Although there's no image uploaded, this member could be contacted also:
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 19, 2023 23:23 | | Subject: | Unmark as Unreleased | | Viewed: | 123 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
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The catalog guidelines state: "Unreleased items are those for which there
is no proof of existence."
I have attached proof of the existence of this set. At least one actual physical
copy of the set exists.
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2023 22:30 | | Subject: | Add Cobrands | | Viewed: | 99 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Completed | |
| Bowdoin College
Danmarks Indsamling
Multiple items.
Rio 2016 and Visa
Rapid Flore
Happy
Monceau Fleurs
Minecraft (or move to Minecraft)
Westdeutsche Rundfunk
Caterham
JAXA
Disney needs to added as a cobrand for many sets, including sets like
these:
Nickelodeon
Nintendo
Marvel Comics
DC Comics
Cadillac (not sure if current General Motors cobrand is valid)
Cartoon Network
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 18, 2023 03:36 | | Subject: | I Object to Uncategorized Items | | Viewed: | 134 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Completed | |
| I am requesting that these two categories be changed or removed:
Miscellaneous
Miscellaneous Licensed
These are not categories and the items within them are uncategorized. I know
there is only one item in each category right now, but this is how things start
going wrong. Things start small and then you end up with 700 uncategorized items
that someone must sort through down the road (speaking from experience).
Everything can be categorized and that is the purpose of having a catalog.
For this set, I suggest a category of Ikea:
For this set, Dorling Kindersley would be appropriate because there probably
are and will be more otherwise-unclassifiable sets like it:
Fortunately, a simple fix here would be to change the titles of the categories
these sets are already in. Thank you.
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 16, 2023 21:55 | | Subject: | Exciting New Feature! | | Viewed: | 151 times | | Topic: | Technical Issues | |
| So apparently there's a new security feature. If you click around too much
in one store, you're locked out from all stores on the website. Unknown
for how long. It just happened about 30 minutes ago to me. All stores now show
the same thing.
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 14, 2023 23:43 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 1594-1 | | Viewed: | 35 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Change 1 Part {Yellow to Red} 2301 Duplo, Brick 2 x 3 x 2 Arch Inverted
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 14, 2023 23:11 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 261-4 | | Viewed: | 24 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 841c01 White Homemaker Stove / Oven 4 x 4 x 3 with White Door
* Delete 1 Part 841 White Homemaker Stove / Oven 4 x 4 x 3
* Delete 1 Part 843 White Homemaker Stove / Oven Door
* Delete 1 Part 842 White Homemaker Stove / Oven Shelf 4 x 4
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 14, 2023 23:10 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 263-1 | | Viewed: | 19 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 841c01 White Homemaker Stove / Oven 4 x 4 x 3 with White Door
* Delete 1 Part 841 White Homemaker Stove / Oven 4 x 4 x 3
* Delete 1 Part 843 White Homemaker Stove / Oven Door
* Delete 1 Part 842 White Homemaker Stove / Oven Shelf 4 x 4
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 14, 2023 23:09 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 269-1 | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 841c01 White Homemaker Stove / Oven 4 x 4 x 3 with White Door
* Delete 1 Part 841 White Homemaker Stove / Oven 4 x 4 x 3
* Delete 1 Part 843 White Homemaker Stove / Oven Door
* Delete 1 Part 842 White Homemaker Stove / Oven Shelf 4 x 4
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 14, 2023 22:47 | | Subject: | Unfortunate Title | | Viewed: | 208 times | | Topic: | Catalog | | Status: | Open | |
| I don't have this figure and thus cannot be certain of the correct skin color.
But . . . couldn't we do just a little better than "dark skin" as
a description??
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 13, 2023 13:46 | | Subject: | Add Years of Release | | Viewed: | 70 times | | Topic: | Catalog Requests | | For: | Catalog Associate | | Status: | Completed | |
| These are all the ones which are easy and completely non-controversial.
2000
2001
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2010
2012
2014
2016
2017
2018
2019
2021
2023
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2023 23:04 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 60283-1 | | Viewed: | 29 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 61484pb019 White Windscreen 5 x 6 x 2 Curved Top Canopy with 4 Studs with Silver 'Caravan DELUXE', Bright Light Orange Sun, Medium Blue River, Reddish Brown Deer and Mountain Pattern (Sticker) - Set 60283 (Counterpart)
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2023 23:03 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 10186-1 | | Viewed: | 17 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 41750pb35 White Wedge 8 x 3 x 2 Open Left with Black Arrow Stripe Pattern (Sticker) - Set 10186 (Counterpart)
* Add 1 Part 41749pb35 White Wedge 8 x 3 x 2 Open Right with Black Arrow Stripe Pattern (Sticker) - Set 10186 (Counterpart)
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2023 23:03 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 8184-1 | | Viewed: | 15 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 52031pb185 Green Wedge 4 x 6 x 2/3 Triple Curved with Black, Red and White 'XR FUEL' Pattern (Sticker) - Set 8184 (Counterpart)
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2023 23:03 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Gear GMRacer4 | | Viewed: | 15 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 85459pb01 Black Vehicle, Top Fast Food Racer 4 x 8 with Front Grille with Black, Light Bluish Gray and Red Stripes and 'TURBO' Pattern (Stickers) - Gear GMRacer4 (Counterpart)
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| Author: | StormChaser | | Posted: | Nov 12, 2023 23:03 | | Subject: | Inventory Change Request for Set 4487-1 | | Viewed: | 12 times | | Topic: | Inventories Requests (Entry) | | Status: | Open | |
| Please make changes to the following inventory:
* Add 1 Part 48933pb035 Dark Blue Wedge 4 x 4 Triple with Stud Notches with Sand Green and Yellow Mini Slave I Pattern (Alternate) (match ID 1)
* Change 1 Part Dark Blue 6069px4 Wedge 4 x 4 Triple without Stud Notches with Sand Green and Yellow Mini Slave I Pattern {match ID 0 to 1}
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