On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 3:37 PM, Lemire, Sebastien <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Then rather no on all three: I'd hate to have Verdi, Bellini, Donizetti >> > or Monteverdi as Venetian, Neapolitan or Tuscan composers. That's >> > opening a can of worms, multiplying the problem we already have with >> > Handel/Händel (german? english?). Why can't we just agree that the >> > newest official state name we're using (from the ISO-list) stands for >> > all predecessor countries? >> >> I agree with this. The artist country isn't specifically the birth >> country, so I don't see a problem with using the country they're >> currently associated with. > > > But this is inconsistent with the way the country list is constructed at the > moment. > I made my RFC proposal with the country list structure in mind with the fact > that there are some historical countries listed and that the countries have > their official current name. > I could agree with the fact that perhaps we shouldn't use the exact country > name at birth in the country field for a composer but that means that the > country list will need to be a little less specific and more general. > I have two propositions, I'm not going to argue for Prussia at the moment, > but Russia is important. > Tchaikovsky has no link with either Soviet Russia or the Post-1991 Russian > Federation. Neither makes sense for him. > Therefore: > Option 1: Add a generic pre-soviet Russia country > Option 2: Remove Soviet Russia and the Russian Federation for a more generic > Russia which isn't as limited in time.
The thing is that we follow an ISO list (also, people tend to forget, but Soviet Union is not Russia, it is Russia and a dozen other republics, so they are not interchangeable). Meaning: we take a standard list of countries and use it. We added Worldwide, which is a quite neutral addition, but anything else should probably follow an standard, at least for now. Until that changes, if you're not comfortable setting old Russian composers to Russian Federation, you could just not set a country for them (it's not mandatory after all). -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
