[mb-style] RFV: Translation Transliteration Relationship Type

Alex Dupuy alex.dupuy at mac.com
Fri Nov 3 23:22:00 UTC 2006


I wrote:

> I'd be more open to the version where the attribute is optional, and 
> if present simply adds "iter" to the appropriate place.  That way at 
> least some of the data in the database already would display 
> correctly.  I will try to get this up on the test server shortly so 
> that you can see how that would look.


I just did this, and it actually works pretty well.  Check out the 
mini-moni. artist page on the test server 
(http://test.musicbrainz.org/show/artist/?artistid=174327) and you can 
see how it looks (once entered) for the albums and the first few 
singles.  Then take a random single and enter the relationships 
yourself.  If you're a naive user, and don't know what a transliteration 
is, it explains it under the checkbox, but if you still don't get it, 
you can leave it unchecked - there's no requirement to decide one or the 
other.  People who are fussy about this can set it correctly, those who 
don't care (the majority, probably) may or may not, and once there is 
server support for displaying this automatically (and always correctly), 
we can simply drop the attribute, and instantly all the inaccurate data 
disappears!

I just ask that people refrain from no-voting on add relationship edits 
that don't mark transliteration correctly - if you really care, you can 
fix it yourself; if you only care a little, you can wait until we remove 
the attribute and the server displays everything correctly.

@alex




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