[mb-style] RFV: DMCSeriesStyle

[Lauri Watts]

On 11/9/06, azertus <azertus at skynet.be> wrote:
> 2006/11/9, Jason Bouwmeester <jbouwmeester at gmail.com>:
> > (sorry if some of this looks familiar krazykiwi ;) - best to keep
> > things uniform!):
>
> I have a strong dislike for the current trend of producing such
> "bulky" guidelines. Which user wants to read say 5 pages with more or
> less the same content, but a different subject? I know I don't. This
> is also a symptom of "instruction creepism" (to use a horrible
> neologism).

The guideline itself, consists of this bit:
=== Begin ===
This page describes the style to be used for DMC series releases.
Enter these releases as follows:

     DMC: Series Name Title # (or Year if no number and Year is part
of the title)

The Series Name should be one of those in the list below. All DMC
series releases should be listed as Promotional, and Compilation. The
Month and Year should be stated in full (October, not '10' and 2006,
not '06').

Some of the issues are multiple discs, and are labelled A and B.
Normal DiscNumberStyle applies to these.
=== End ===

That's not really very verbose, and it's about as long as the Promo
Only one (in fact, it's exactly as long).


The rest is explanation, and background, only there if you care to
read it, for people who are interested.  We're supposed to post that
kind of thing when proposing a guideline, so people understand what
it's about, without knowing anything about the series.

We could perhaps be clearer about that on the wiki pages, but there's
plenty of official guidelines much longer and more complex than these.
 In fact, it'd be nice if there was a standard way to mark this on the
wiki pages ("This bit is the guideline" and "This stuff is just
background material, only read if you want")

BTW, Promo Only is hardly my pet series, it was just such a mess I
couldn't stand looking at them any longer.  I suspect that's where
most of these style guidelines will be coming from, someone who just
wants to _fix_ them, one way or another.

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts