Note Procedures

CellarTracker provides a number of ways for users to store and share both 
public and private notes about wines, their consumption and tasting. This 
document is a guide to help users determine which type of note to use and when.
  
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== PUBLIC: Tasting Notes ==
These are public and are seen by all users. These should NOT contain copyrighted
material, scores from critics, or promotional material from retailers. In a
nutshell, a tasting note should reflect YOUR impressions on how a wine tastes.
It is important to keep in mind that tens of thousands of people see these
tasting notes every day. Any remarks that are defamatory, offensive, or strongly
political may be edited or deleted. Play nicely! :)
  
With regard to copyrights, please note the following which appears on the 
personal tasting note entry screen to this effect: //NOTE: Tasting notes that 
you enter should not include copyrighted material. Their use is governed by 
Section 6 (Contributions) of the [http://www.cellartracker.com/terms.asp 
CellarTracker! Terms and Conditions].//
  
== PUBLIC: CellarTracker Integrated Wiki ==
On every wine page, you can add/edit/view articles on specific wines, 
producers, varieties, appellations and more. As with the personal tasting 
notes, these articles are public and should not contain copyrighted 
professional scores. That said, this is the ideal place to store data from 
producers about their wines, fact sheets, varietal breakdowns, alcohol 
percentages etc.
  
== PRIVATE: Consumption Notes ==
When consuming a bottle, you can store a short (255 character) note. This is 
the ideal place to record who you might have consumed a bottle with, given a 
gift to, the name of a restaurant etc.
  
== PRIVATE: Per-wine Private Notes ==
For each wine, each user can store one long (6144 character) private note. This 
is a good place to keep track of information about gifts or other stuff that 
might better be kept private.
  
== PRIVATE: Professional Reviews ==
For each wine a user can enter a many of these as you want. You can record the 
publication, date, score, drinking window and review text. For copyright 
reasons, these are private to each user. This is the ideal way to store 
copyrighted write-ups from critics for your own personal use.
  
== SEMI-PRIVATE: Purchase Notes ==
For each purchase you create, you can store a short (255 character) purchase 
note. This is a great place to keep track of order numbers and other 
purchase-specific details. //NOTE: if you give users permission to view your 
cellar, there are views in the site where they can see the purchase note.//
  
== SEMI-PRIVATE: Bottle Notes ==
For each bottle in your cellar, you can shore a short (255 character) bottle 
note. This is a great place to keep track of bottle-specific conditions such as 
"signed by winemaker" or "torn label" or "scratched 
capsule" etc. //NOTE: if you give users permission to view your cellar, 
there are views in the site where they can see the bottle note.//
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