[mb-style] RFV: DMCSeriesStyle

[azertus]

2006/11/9, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com>:
> 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.

Sure, I can relate. But why aren't normal guidelines sufficient? I
cannot agree that being part of a series makes it so that an album's
title should be "Promo Only: Mainstream Radio, October 2003" instead
of (by parsing the cover, according to _my reading_ of current
guidelines) "Mainstream Radio: October 2003", with an annotation
saying "Label: Promo Only" (or, soon, a release event with a label
attached)?! I think that is crazy.

Also, what is your solution to a (possible) future increase of those
kind of guidelines? What could work, is a WikiPage of a bulleted list
with one example for each series and a link to the WikiPage including
the "extra information". But even such a page could easily become
unwieldy.

And to stay on the subject of this particular RFV. I think it is quite
weak. You really have to jump through hoops to consider DMC part of
http://www.dmcworld.com/djonly/boxsetstracks.asp?id=1477 (it is hard
to find covers of these, but I hope you get the picture) I get the
feeling that a lot of these guidelines are tagger-oriented. Why would
you want to include DMC in every title if it isn't for easy sorting or
searching purposes?