# wikipedia as Tag Source?

**URL:** https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wikipedia-as-tag-source/17927
**Category:** General Discussion
**Created:** [May 6, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wikipedia-as-tag-source/17927 "2016-05-06T14:37:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![simonlok](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/df788c/32.png) [@simonlok](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/simonlok)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wikipedia-as-tag-source/17927/1 "2016-05-06T14:37:14Z")

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This is the absolute best tagging program. Great work! Small suggestion, it would be great in the future to have Wikipedia as one of the supported tag sources for info and covers.

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### Author: ![poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/poster/32/4881_2.png) [@poster](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/poster)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 2:55pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wikipedia-as-tag-source/17927/2 "2016-05-06T14:55:03Z")

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I don't see any necessarity for this. There are a lot of better web-sources for this purpose.  
Wikipedia has those informations seldom and also not in a standard form, that would make it possible to read them, if they are present.

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### Author: ![mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/9d8465/32.png) [@mjcm](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/mjcm)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2016, 11:58pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wikipedia-as-tag-source/17927/3 "2016-05-06T23:58:07Z")

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I have to agree with poster.

I love Wikipedia for tagging purposes but I do it manually.

For cover art just use AAD

Link here: [https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,57392.0.html](https://hydrogenaud.io/index.php/topic,57392.0.html)

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### Author: ![Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/user_avatar/community.mp3tag.de/zerow/32/11379_2.png) [@Zerow](https://community.mp3tag.de/u/Zerow)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2016, 4:45pm UTC](https://community.mp3tag.de/t/wikipedia-as-tag-source/17927/4 "2016-05-09T16:45:31Z")

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> [@Mike\_nl](#):
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> I have to agree with poster.
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> I love Wikipedia for tagging purposes but I do it manually.  
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I use [www.musicbrainz.org](http://www.musicbrainz.org) and / or Wikipedia and [www.discogs.com](http://www.discogs.com)

And I also just do not see the possibility of using Wikipedia in some automated way. Even if some standard was created there, you could always run onto a vandalized article