Re: [mb-style] RFC: Style/Language/Swedish

2012-06-01 Thread Lauri Watts
of the week and months of the year, as well as (some) pronouns and various other things that aren't in most languages. A little precision is easier in the long term: Perhaps Capitalize the first word of a sentence and the names of people or places. // Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] RFC-327: Featured Artists

2011-07-16 Thread Lauri Watts
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Ryan Torchia anarchyr...@gmail.com wrote: 2011/7/16 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren reosare...@gmail.com That still a common scenario, and the position that the featured artist might not deserve equal credit is absolutely correct in many cases. One would think

Re: [mb-style] Adding pirated download links to releases as can be downloaded for free from... relationships

2011-07-05 Thread Lauri Watts
allowed, but we clearly allow unauthorized remixes? Has there been some court decision that this is fine? I highly doubt it. If there is one, I'd like to see it, and in what jurisdiction it happened. MB really can not afford to be linked to piracy. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] CSG: research for Release names artists

2011-05-23 Thread Lauri Watts
the nitpickers jump me, I am not talking about normalising work names, I am talking about deciding who the artist is. We shouldn't be deciding that, we should be recording it, just like we do everywhere else) -- Lauri Watts ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] Capitalization in NGS

2011-05-22 Thread Lauri Watts
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Dr Andrew John Hughes gnu_and...@member.fsf.org wrote: On 22 May 2011 21:29, Kuno Woudt k...@frob.nl wrote: A major fault I see with it straight away is it only considers releases by the artist (and thus I assume is based on the implication that the

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Less VA?

2011-05-20 Thread Lauri Watts
on the cover, that's the one that gets used for the release artist. Individual tracks on the album though, are credited to the correct artists. -- Lauri Watts ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] CSG: Less VA?

2011-05-20 Thread Lauri Watts
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 9:47 PM, lorenz pressler l...@gmx.at wrote: Lauri Watts wrote: Enough they got their name on the cover. http://musicbrainz.1054305.n4.nabble.com/file/n3539408/bravohits37.jpg http://imageshack.us/m/703/1612/bravohits37.jpg i would hate to see 7 or more artists

Re: [mb-style] “Demo” release type

2010-05-08 Thread Lauri Watts
? -- Lauri Watts ___ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Post NGS Style Guidelines, Titles

2010-01-31 Thread Lauri Watts
. He could as well have called it Humming the Bassline (Butterflies are pretty remix) but it would still be Deavid Soul remixing. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] Person as publisher

2008-08-17 Thread Lauri Watts
if you're interested (ones that explain it a bit more clearly than I just did :) -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Wording change on BonusDisc (was: [mb-users], Bonus discs: Official or Promotion?)

2008-07-10 Thread Lauri Watts
. But then, I don't think something that is for sale is a demo either (but a lot of self-released CD-R's are), and apparently metaldom does tend to use 'demo' where most other genres would call it a promo. Which only confuses things even further. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Wording change on BonusDisc (was: [mb-users], Bonus discs: Official or Promotion?)

2008-07-06 Thread Lauri Watts
release, then it is one. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Use of the performed other instruments AR

2008-05-18 Thread Lauri Watts
' as a performed instrument, this will never be in the instrument tree, but since the person with that credit is actually rather famous and their appearance is quite notable, an AR for 'other instruments' is more valuable than not having it at all. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] Removing some instruments from the instrument tree

2008-05-15 Thread Lauri Watts
of the world. So I could see: Wind Instruments (or: Woodwinds) Strings Percussion (and Brass) (and all the stuff we have that your average orchestra would have to ponder where to sit them) That pesky English grammar and all that. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Minor wording change to SubTitleStyle

2008-05-13 Thread Lauri Watts
(and now, not even then) Does everyone agree that adding 'distinct' gives enhanced value? It just makes it wordier for me, a continual problem with the MB docs, but whatever the crowd thinks. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz

[mb-style] RFC: Minor wording change to SubTitleStyle

2008-05-10 Thread Lauri Watts
of this kind of formatting (or we wouldn't do it in the first place.) Having an apparent exception for 'subtitles that are written on the same line' makes little sense, and is probably just historical. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] L-t-E-P-W-L-V-P-f-a-R

2008-04-08 Thread Lauri Watts
to every fan page in existence, or every copy of a discography, and we don't automatically add links to every online store a CD is available at, even though multiple of each of these exist. We pick and choose 'the good ones'. Anyway, I'm really really not interested in more arguing. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] L-t-E-P-W-L-V-P-f-a-R

2008-04-07 Thread Lauri Watts
wikipedia links don't put those edits up to vote. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Names - as many as possible?

2008-04-04 Thread Lauri Watts
by and if it's his chosen tilltalsnamn in the svenska folkbok, it's his actual legal name too, there is no use to anyone having it as anything but an alias. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] Names - as many as possible?

2008-04-04 Thread Lauri Watts
2008/4/4 Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Again, please show me this guideline. The two excepts you cited did not indicate this in any way. I did. It said, use the most often credited name (which is always Magnus Uggla, other than when he uses Bobbo Viking.) Ok, and the other? What

Re: [mb-style] Names - as many as possible?

2008-04-04 Thread Lauri Watts
were so insanely nonsensical I was grasping at straws as to why anyone would think Magnus Uggla's name is anything but Magnus. Of course, you are right though, not using all your names is the norm, which is why it's in the guidelines. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] Names - as many as possible?

2008-04-03 Thread Lauri Watts
On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 11:22 AM, symphonick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/4/3, Philip Jägenstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What you want seems more like a legal name field, which we don't have. Until there is a legal name field or an artist name variation system similar to that of discogs I

Re: [mb-style] Names - as many as possible?

2008-04-03 Thread Lauri Watts
'the middle ones', this is the case that applies to Magnus Uggla, and is quite normal in Sweden. If you want to change the guideline, post an RFC, but _that_ one just passed RFV not even a month ago, without opposition, so I really don't see the point. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] Names - as many as possible?

2008-04-02 Thread Lauri Watts
absolutely sure two entries are for the same person, merge away. Don't forget to explain things though. Magnus for Mange is non-obvious to an English speaker, but then William for Bill is not obvious to most non-native English speakers too. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] Names - as many as possible?

2008-04-02 Thread Lauri Watts
with it ;) -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Names - as many as possible?

2008-04-02 Thread Lauri Watts
in MB for every variation, and split the discographies across them. This has nothing to do with verbosity, just some common sense, surely. Which is exactly what the guideline says, and since you aren't proposing a new one I suggest we just stick to it. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-27 Thread Lauri Watts
. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-26 Thread Lauri Watts
are included as two separate cd's, as an explicit example of something that is a bundle. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-25 Thread Lauri Watts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sometimes it makes no sense to use any single title style on those, but sometimes the contents get new cover art, or disc number

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-25 Thread Lauri Watts
with that. But you will never convince me that adding an extra 10 releases, or even 140 more, to Bach's page is going to be a material difference either way in the clutter stakes. But that's a UI issue anyway, and should be solved in the UI, not by outlawing perfectly good releases. -- Lauri Watts Lauri

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-25 Thread Lauri Watts
here. So yeah, in an ideal world you're entirely right Frederic, no doubt about it. But in this imperfect one, we do the best we can with the tools at our disposal. And NGS is our path to 'less imperfect' at the very least. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-25 Thread Lauri Watts
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 8:32 PM, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... yes, I'm aware I can't count tonight, no need to point it out :) -- Lauri ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-24 Thread Lauri Watts
more valid. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-24 Thread Lauri Watts
art, or disc number designations they didn't originally have, and in those cases, I don't see what the big problem is in having duplicating them, so both sides get what they want. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-24 Thread Lauri Watts
the packaging. I am pretty sure we could dig through the DB and come up with plenty of times when all three choices have been made, because it's currently a bit non-obvious, and all three might make sense, at the time, depending somewhat on context. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-24 Thread Lauri Watts
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 24/03/2008, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:33 PM, Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i think an entire new language is more valid than marketing info :) i mean, if you have

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

2008-03-24 Thread Lauri Watts
artists that I didn't discover until a while after I moved here. Once I did discover them the easiest way to get hold of their back catalogue was to buy the box sets, and they seem to all have titles :) -- Lauri Watts ultimately, if it makes sense to keep the separated, any attempt to merge

Re: [mb-style] [CSG] Short form CSG (was Re: Bach passions and CSG)

2008-03-22 Thread Lauri Watts
a track that isn't even on the album, and put it right in the middle of the album, offsetting the second half of the tracklist by one song, and messing up the titles of some of the others.. Our tracklisting is accurate against the actual content of the album, however. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] Band name changes (was [mb-devel] Panic! at the Disco)

2008-03-22 Thread Lauri Watts
are quite different in content to the originals.) -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Band name changes (was [mb-devel] Panic! at the Disco)

2008-03-20 Thread Lauri Watts
want to either explicitly allow it's use or replace it with a similar AR only for bands. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Band name changes (was [mb-devel] Panic! at the Disco)

2008-03-20 Thread Lauri Watts
, that they're on different pages now is something that maybe could be fixed/handled in the SOC rewrite, if not waiting until NGS actually gets here. But only if they're related somehow in the first place. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] Band name changes (was [mb-devel] Panic! at the Disco)

2008-03-20 Thread Lauri Watts
*sigh* replying to myself yet again. Discussion is also ongoing at this edit: http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8499030 where Kerensky raises most of the same points. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

[mb-style] Band name changes (was [mb-devel] Panic! at the Disco)

2008-03-19 Thread Lauri Watts
during their active career (The 'Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music' problem), only those that actually affect albums released by the band during their recording career. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Band name changes (was [mb-devel] Panic! at the Disco)

2008-03-19 Thread Lauri Watts
them separate now, but AR'ed, users could still follow the trail, albeit not as easily as if they were all on one page, and we aren't setting up yet another pile of rather tedious work once NGS is available. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing

Re: [mb-style] Band name changes (was [mb-devel] Panic! at the Disco)

2008-03-19 Thread Lauri Watts
, band lineups are often fluid between albums anyway. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Band name changes (was [mb-devel] Panic! at the Disco)

2008-03-19 Thread Lauri Watts
compilations tend to invent bazillions of name combinations that never actually existed. Those should still be merged out of existence, this AR should only be for _real_ band name changes. Hopefully that's clearer than my first attempt. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Works lists (and other related changes then implied)

2008-03-03 Thread Lauri Watts
anyway. Essentially it would be more useful if creating the lists is work that doesn't need to be done over again when NGS is nearer, either by you or by people maintaining lists, and you obviously have the clearest idea of how to achieve that. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] Guest performances again

2008-03-02 Thread Lauri Watts
information comes along, and if I can't tell, or don't know, 'performed' is better than nothing, and 'performed vocal' is better yet again. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] Guest performances again

2008-03-02 Thread Lauri Watts
that up (it already does from the track titles, with the appropriate plugin.) I've never seen anyone arguing about the guest attribute though (and we certainly like to argue about things around here.) -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] CSG compromise?

2008-03-01 Thread Lauri Watts
Sol, and they know nothing about either and us being impatient with them getting the details wrong when they enter them in MB is not really helping that. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] RFC: What defines a unique release, attempted clarification

2008-02-29 Thread Lauri Watts
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 10:29 AM, Olivier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/2/29, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any thoughts on using or rather adapting one of the moin styles that drop the ToC into a right floated div? They actually look pretty good. http://moinmo.in/ThemeMarket/Monomoin

Re: [mb-style] RFC: What defines a unique release, attempted clarification

2008-02-28 Thread Lauri Watts
Olivier, Lord of the Wiki) think of making WikiNameTalk or WikiNameDiscussion pages more common, and getting the talk stuff out of there? -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: Re: [mb-style] Musicbrainz-style Digest, Vol 34, Issue 86

2008-02-27 Thread Lauri Watts
they are meaningless mumbo jumbo. And there's a whole spectrum in between. Useless is as useless does. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: Re: [mb-style] Musicbrainz-style Digest, Vol 34, Issue 86

2008-02-27 Thread Lauri Watts
. But not ever, ever, because it's got bad punctuation. Sadly, that isn't the situation just now. -- Lauri Watts. ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: Re: [mb-style] Musicbrainz-style Digest, Vol 34, Issue 86

2008-02-27 Thread Lauri Watts
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And the track title is? If it's listed on the liner as Bach (sonata Nr 1 G-moll Bwv 1001 Presto) you seriously would argue that that is exactly how we ought to enter In the context of a movie soundtrack, why not?

Re: Re: [mb-style] Musicbrainz-style Digest, Vol 34, Issue 86

2008-02-27 Thread Lauri Watts
and explain why. I think voting no without doing so is elitist and unfair, especially when said no votes are not even accompanied with a comment. It's a bully tactic, and has no place here. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] CSG

2008-02-26 Thread Lauri Watts
on work lists shows that we care about correct or the most correct titles and consistency. I suggest you read Lukz post again. Twice, if necessary. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] CSG

2008-02-26 Thread Lauri Watts
, or is it partly that people who are put off by all that detail, do not edit CSG (and probably don't use MB for their classical music because of it) -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] RFV: renaming JapaneseArtistsException to JapaneseArtistsClarification (was: JapaneseArtistsException)

2008-02-26 Thread Lauri Watts
' will fit. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFV: renaming JapaneseArtistsException to JapaneseArtistsClarification (was: JapaneseArtistsException)

2008-02-26 Thread Lauri Watts
, and say This applies equally much here, and here's my original sources to show you: and provide url's to back up the Consistent Data point. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Splitting up ConsistentOriginalData

2008-02-25 Thread Lauri Watts
that you need to provide some evidence for ConsistentOriginalData (ideally in the ^^ s/ConsistentOriginalData/ConsistentOfficialData -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org

Re: [mb-style] CSG

2008-02-25 Thread Lauri Watts
a works title list anyway. So it's very valuable work, just with a longer time to payoff. And accept that just because you find A, B, C and D useless, doesn't mean that any or all of our _consumers_ find it so. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] CSG

2008-02-25 Thread Lauri Watts
, and rethink that position. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: close the (very old) UnresolvedStyleIssue about DateOfBirthStyle

2008-02-18 Thread Lauri Watts
that came to mind first, and I don't have a lot of time to write this. [2] Do we still have all those Madonna's in the db? I daren't look, but I know we have had (and a Madonna Penn :) in the past. In any case, this also covers adding people just to fill out a family tree. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] JapaneseArtistsException [was: Open call for people who can speak Yiddish, Hebrew, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, etc]

2008-02-18 Thread Lauri Watts
On Feb 18, 2008 3:48 PM, Kuno Woudt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 09:41:04AM +0100, Lauri Watts wrote: On Feb 18, 2008 2:50 AM, Jim DeLaHunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The change is already the noted JapaneseArtistsException page. The text there has been in place

Re: [mb-style] RFC: close the (very old) UnresolvedStyleIssue about DateOfBirthStyle

2008-02-18 Thread Lauri Watts
of me remember who it was. It was certainly one of those old bluesmen, that much I can remember. Hopefully that is a better example (and now that you hopefully know what I meant, you can think of an even more obvious one :) -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] RFC: close the (very old) UnresolvedStyleIssue about DateOfBirthStyle

2008-02-18 Thread Lauri Watts
On Feb 18, 2008 7:09 PM, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 18, 2008 5:54 PM, Olivier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * nicknames that normally are not used standalone (Lowell Sly Dunbar [1]) Lauri, I added your three first, but am not too sure I get a grasp on the last one - can

Re: [mb-style] Re: RFC: close the (very old) UnresolvedStyleIssue about DateOfBirthStyle

2008-02-16 Thread Lauri Watts
, not to the AR. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: StylePrinciple Reasoning

2008-02-15 Thread Lauri Watts
changing the track titles. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Clarify CoverRelationshipType not for Classical, takes 1st release

2008-02-12 Thread Lauri Watts
the obvious. I'd rather put a stop to this already. Or if you really insist, make a list of all the pages this 'needs' to be stated on, and do one RFC for the lot, and make it a wiki include (macro, whatever moin calls them) with a short statement. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Clarify CoverRelationshipType not for Classical, takes 1st release

2008-02-12 Thread Lauri Watts
need different wording, take just those separately. I bet the majority of pages could be neatly covered by a single sentence included in each though. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] Re: Musicbrainz-style Digest, Vol 34, Issue 37

2008-02-09 Thread Lauri Watts
of like how a track that isn't a remix doesn't have anyone to make a remixer AR to. It's just not relevant, or important, and I totally fail to see your point even mentioning it. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Changed name to for labels

2008-02-09 Thread Lauri Watts
On Feb 9, 2008 7:44 PM, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (withdrawing this RFC btw) , yet still lets us document the interesting bits about who owned who We hit it. That's interesting, but for either annotations or a financial database (which we are not)... If so, why do

Re: [mb-style] Featured Artist and name checking [was Re: Setting Classical Release Artists to Performers]

2008-02-04 Thread Lauri Watts
are effectively always referred to as such. It should also of course be stored in an AR. And if the artist is guesting but not featured, that should also be in an AR. But if they are featured on the cover, they should be featured in the title. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] Re: [Clean up CSG] Typography (was: Capitalization (and placement))

2008-01-31 Thread Lauri Watts
pretty easy on a Mac: Option + :). http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MiscellaneousGuideline?highlight=%28ellipsis%29 Do read all the way down, and excuse me for finding the final comment on the page to be slightly ironic. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Re: Re: [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement)

2008-01-29 Thread Lauri Watts
On Jan 29, 2008 2:49 PM, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The CSG is already terrifying. I do not see this particular change improving that situation, and it doesn't make sense to me, and I do understand now that you completely fail to see my point, so I'll just let it go.

Re: [mb-style] Re: [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement)

2008-01-29 Thread Lauri Watts
MB track titles either makes sense, or is easier. And nobody has posted any kind of sensible reason why this character (that we don't already use) is the best or only solution to the problem. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz

Re: [mb-style] Re: [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement)

2008-01-28 Thread Lauri Watts
already. CSG is so hard, even classically able editors don't always like to touch it. This is just one more thing likely to frustrate people into not even trying. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Re: [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement)

2008-01-28 Thread Lauri Watts
CSG has? MB is hard already. CSG is so hard, even classically able editors don't always like to touch it. This is just one more thing likely to frustrate people into not even trying. -- Lauri Watts Quite honestly? No, I don't worry about this. #1, the whole point is that master lists

Re: [mb-style] Re: [Clean up CSG] Capitalization (and placement)

2008-01-28 Thread Lauri Watts
On Jan 29, 2008 12:12 AM, Brian Schweitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, if we're going to re-write CSG to handle all the issues it currently has, why not rewrite it so we don't end up with correct text, correctly capitalized, but squeezed between incorrect typograpy from the 1960's that's

Re: [mb-style] [Clean up CSG] Classical and Release Language

2008-01-27 Thread Lauri Watts
attributes, that's a different issue. On that note, even non classical could conceivably use a 'vocal language' to capture what language tracks are sung in, because english titles on non-english songs, to name one case, is very common. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] [no label]

2008-01-09 Thread Lauri Watts
[no label], in the end that's what they are, and label aliases would go a long way towards getting things filed in the right place. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman

Re: [mb-style] [no label]

2008-01-08 Thread Lauri Watts
it, or these will all end up under [unknown] anyway, and we already established people aren't too comfortable with unknown. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [mb-style] Musicbrainz-style Digest, Vol 33, Issue 12

2008-01-04 Thread Lauri Watts
out of doing enough research to know exactly which tracks the AR describes. True, but there is only so much we can do about that anyway. I guess people that lazy aren't actually adding AR's at all, so our chances here are pretty good. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
to pick one, and document it _clearly_. I don't understand why everyone is so against writing down clear rules, when not doing so results in all this ambiguity. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

Re: [mb-style] [no label]

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
discogs recommendation for non-existent cat # (eg: using none if there are no cat # either)? As long as that one's also made really clear what it means (ie, that it was researched and there _is_ no catalog number, not I can't be bothered finding my cd cover so i'll just put none here.) -- Lauri

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
, but there never is. It's also helpful to not assume people hate you if they disagree. We don't. And none of this is targeted at anyone in particular, including the author of the post I'm replying to, it's just generalities. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
? -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
On Jan 3, 2008 6:44 PM, Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/01/2008, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 3, 2008 5:33 PM, Bram van Dijk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * I do presume that _because_ AR's are being propagated, anything that is specifically AR'ed has had a higher

Re: [mb-style] Agree, and more detailed proposal [was: Re: Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL]

2008-01-03 Thread Lauri Watts
. Type 3) Some ARs can apply at either level - photography, liner notes, production, etc. That crashing noise was the sky falling after Brian and I just came to almost exactly the same conclusions. So +1 what he said above. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL

2008-01-02 Thread Lauri Watts
' and would be meaningless if applied to tracks. The 'put it on release level if we're not sure' makes little sense to me, I would prefer to see that kind of information in annotations. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL

2008-01-02 Thread Lauri Watts
, instrumental and vocal AR's should only be entered if they do in fact apply to every track on the release. Not opening up and tacitly encouraging sloppy data entry, just because it's hard to do it right. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level? - PROPOSAL

2008-01-02 Thread Lauri Watts
On Jan 2, 2008 1:38 PM, Chris B [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/01/2008, Lauri Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yet again something i asked for 6 months ago comes again :) i shall bump it... Not sure what you meant here, it's entirely possible to enter all these credits (even down to per-track

Re: [mb-style] Composition/Performer/Production ARs at Release or Track level?

2008-01-02 Thread Lauri Watts
be foolish to claim so, and so I do not. Which is the point really; They oughtn't to be auto-propagated, rather it's one more chance for me to check over a whole lot of data. -- Lauri Watts. ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] What to do with Sun Ra

2007-12-16 Thread Lauri Watts
research cosmic' is a different ball game. There's a precedent for handling it that way, with Cassetteboy, even though that's a slightly different situation and it works well there. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFV: new vocal type - rap

2007-08-22 Thread Lauri Watts
, which of the various guest vocalists is doing which bit anyway, and I think this would help clarify. I've got a few corner cases that I'd be throwing your way to figure out the right AR though Arty :) -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] RFC: ClassicalReleaseLanguage

2007-07-27 Thread Lauri Watts
On 7/26/07, Kuno Woudt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 04:54:00PM +0200, MLL wrote: Now, if (like I guess so far), you don't believe the release language is interesting in any way, why bother with this RFC anyhow? No, I believe nothing, but I'm eager to sort out what this

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change Default Data Quality

2007-07-09 Thread Lauri Watts
think the former the better terminology, but I'm willing to go with the latter if it gets this through. :) I, too, prefer Verified/Unverified to Voted/Unvoted. Just for the record. I strongly prefer voted/unvoted to verified/unverfiied. -- Lauri Watts

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change Default Data Quality

2007-07-01 Thread Lauri Watts
a beginning editor over the knuckles with a wooden ruler. So that example is probably a bit long, but I know which one I would rather get, if I was a beginner and unsure of what I was doing. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Change Default Data Quality

2007-07-01 Thread Lauri Watts
in the interface, only ensures more noise and errors get in. I don't know really is the best choice, for a lot of people. That's why it's in the list. -- Lauri Watts ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http

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