Catalogue contribution

Hello users of Numista

Since I joined Numista just over a year ago I’ve been contributing heavily adding new coins/notes, expanding descriptions and adding/improving the scans of the coins or notes and what not. In the last few days I’ve been adding tags to almost every single note in the catalogue (I’m nearly done with Bulgaria) and from going through all those notes I’ve noticed something no offence to the referees and the admins helping out but sometimes the description of the coin or note but at the moment I’m focusing on banknotes the description is occasionally left blank and no tags to help identifying it. Plus if the writing on the note is in a different language why is that stopping anyone from filing it in I’ve done that on various notes that I don't understand their language but that doesn’t stop me.


For example the description of these two banknotes is appropriate.

Belgium 10000 Francs
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note204984.html

Republic of China 50 Dollars
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note202911.html


While these ones are missing their descriptions.

Iran 100 Rials
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note238003.html

Mexico 50 Pesos
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note271181.html

So we should give you our eternal gratitude and a medal for correcting data in the catalogue? And how is this story about how other people disappointed you an improvement suggestion that should be in the Numista website category?

Quote: "smvdbrink"​So we should give you our eternal gratitude and a medal for correcting data in the catalogue? And how is this story about how other people disappointed you an improvement suggestion that should be in the Numista website category?

​Nah I’m not a reward type of person, what I’m just saying is that in certain countries or timeframe some notes especially have the lack of a description that makes it hard to see what it says on the note especially if it is in a different language from the collector.

Anyway basically I’m pointing out something that needs sorting at the minute I’m in Bulgaria filling in descriptions and adding tags.

Hello,

for the following banknote:

Republic of China 50 Dollars
https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note202911.html

The description is as follows:
Arabic denomination (50) in top left.

This doesn't seems right to me. 50 in arabic would be ٥٠ ? Isn't it better to describe the number 50 as 'western script' or something ?

Quote: "Newtony"​Hello,
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​for the following banknote:
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​Republic of China 50 Dollars
​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note202911.html
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​The description is as follows:
​Arabic denomination (50) in top left.
​
​This doesn't seems right to me. 50 in arabic would be ٥٠ ? Isn't it better to describe the number 50 as 'western script' or something ?

​The "author" meant Arabic numerals 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 in the proper sense (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals). I agree it's confusing and should have been written Denomination in top left in Arabic (Western) numerals (50).

QuoteThe "author" meant Arabic numerals 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 in the proper sense (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_numerals). I agree it's confusing and should have been written Denomination in top left in Arabic (Western) numerals (50).

​Thanks, I've read the wiki article and this makes things a bit more clear 😎I like your suggestion on how the description should be written 😁

The lettering doesn't belong in the description we have a field 'Lettering' for that and transliteration doesn't belong their either.
For my taste the description is far to overloaded and reminds me of picture-less catalogs.

Better then nothing though.

Quote: "Worldwide collection"​​While these ones are missing their descriptions.
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​Iran 100 Rials
​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note238003.html
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​Mexico 50 Pesos
​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note271181.html

​These countries has referee's that couldn't care less, they just want to be a referee because they think it'll give them some kind of status? I've seen catalogues where barely any of the obv/rev is added, so somethimes I've made one - full description of obv.and rev., full lettering and translation of obv. and rev. and in the comment I've written "Now you can do the rest." (Nice attitude, right? ) Referees like this should be removed!

It could also be that these countries don't have any referees, and the member who added the note just wanted their number to go up and add as many as possible as fast as possible. Why bother spending time on making a neat and correct entering, when you can get high numbers in the Catalog contributions statistics?

Quote: "ngdawa"​

Quote: "Worldwide collection"​​While these ones are missing their descriptions.
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​​Iran 100 Rials
​​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note238003.html
​​
​​Mexico 50 Pesos
​​https://en.numista.com/catalogue/note271181.html

​​These countries has referee's that couldn't care less, they just want to be a referee because they think it'll give them some kind of status? I've seen catalogues where barely any of the obv/rev is added, so somethimes I've made one - full description of obv.and rev., full lettering and translation of obv. and rev. and in the comment I've written "Now you can do the rest." (Nice attitude, right? ) Referees like this should be removed!
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​It could also be that these countries don't have any referees, and the member who added the note just wanted their number to go up and add as many as possible as fast as possible. Why bother spending time on making a neat and correct entering, when you can get high numbers in the Catalog contributions statistics?

​Also you may have noticed that this issue tends to be in a nation that are managed by certain referees I understand some notes (mostly very old ones) might be hard to put a description about it but notes in the last 30-35 years that’s very easy to do.

I’ve noticed this while adding tags to banknotes that don’t have them hence the high amount of pages edited.