1. Set up a visual/avatar for your SHS user profile
2. Follow our social media accounts : Facebook, Twitter and Bluesky
   • NB: We don't expect you to create a Facebook account if you don't have one. But if you do we'll give you editor access, and you can post anything you deem cover song-relevant.
   • Get editor access to our Facebook page
   • Update 2025 : Our Twitter account is currently on hold
3. Link your SecondHandSongs account to your Discogs account.
   • If you don't have a Discogs account, create it first.
   • This is how it should look like on your User Profile:
4. Communication
   1. Give a short presentation (anything you want to share) in the forum thread with your name
   2. Use the forum to communicate, this will allow any editor to jump in
   3. Avoid PM and email for any database-related subject
5. Submissions
   • You can continue submitting covers on public website, but beware you're only making your own To Do-list longer.
   • Also, as an editor you won't be using the submission form anymore, except for web covers.
6. Essential reading list
   • The Test database instructions
   • The Capitalization guidelines
   • The Editor bookmarks
7. Make sure you understand the difference between a Works and a Performances.
8. Process your very first submission
   1. Go to Participate > Unprocessed Own Submissions
      • Choose a submission with the green "Cover" label
      • For now, avoid submissions with the red "Original" and blue "Generic" labels
      • Click on "Assign to Me"
      • Start processing this entry by using the CREATE buttons that appeared
      • NB: This will create the weird situation where you're asked to rate your own submissions. This is not an important matter, do what you want with it.
   2. Process a submission using the "Create" buttons in the Top Editor Bar
   3. Reattribute a submission to a different work
   4. Register a performance
      • Video tutorial
9. Handle the Error reports assigned to you
   1. When we spot database entries that need to be improved or corrected, we will assign Error Reports to you.
   2. Don't be suprised if you get an impressive amount of error reports, and certainly don't take it personal:
      • It's part of your training process
      • It's inevitable to make (a lot of) mistakes in the beginning
      • While you're in the training process, please wait to set error reports as processed until more senior editors have confirmed all is ok
   3. Reattribute an error report to the relevant database entity, and also the editor asssignation (if needed)
   4. If it concerns a Youtube video that a non-editor added
10. Handle the Unassigned Error reports submitted by you
    1. With your new powers you're able to edit entries created by retired editors.
    2. Use these new access powers to clean up the list of Unassigned Error reports submitted by you, that have probably remained unprocessed for some time.
    3. Assign an error report for a mistake that has been made by an active editor different from the owner of the entry.
11. Works
    1. Create a new work
       • Link your work to ISWC, ASCAP, BMI and GEMA. Access them through our list of PRO databases
       • Manage a data mismatch: Decide whether to overrule or correct
         • Read the guideline How to Manage Mismatch Warnings first
         • Then pick a case from the error list. Preferrably process one of your own entries, if you don't have any, pick any other.
    2. Create a foreign language adaptation
    3. Make an existing work an adaptation of another work
12. Performances
    1. Attributing an existing performance from the wrong to the right work
       • Video tutorial
    2. Create a medley
    3. Fix the order of the medley parts
    4. Create an original performance that first appeared in a movie. Requires creating a Broadcast first.
    5. Create a mash-up
13. Release
    1. Create a release using the Discogs form filler
    2. Linking an existing performance to a second release
    3. Link to 2 related releases
    4. Link a Youtube playlist
    5. Link a Spotify release
    6. Link an Apple Music release
    7. External data: Link artists and/or performances
    8. Create a joint performer while creating a release or performance
    9. Changing the performer of a release, and subsequently using the "Mass Edit" menu to likewise edit the performances on the release
       • Video tutorial
    10. Upload an attachment
    11. Use the circular crop feature for a single visual
14. Artists
    1. Crop an artist picture
       1. To get rid of a border or text
       2. To center it horizontally
    2. Create an artist relation
    3. Merge artist aliases
    4. Convert an artist alias into a joint performer. See Video tutorial
15. Text editing
    1. Use mark-up language to make internal object links simply by pasting the URL
    2. Use mark-up language to make internal object links but also altering the displayed text
    3. Use mark-up language to hide external links
       • Video tutorial
    4. Manually quoting = not using the quote button
    5. Link a specific forum post
16. Ask to be added to the Editor World Map
17. Clean Automated Error Lists
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PART TWO

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