[mb-style] RFC: ClassicalReleaseArtistStyle

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

2006/10/3, Don Redman <donredman at gmx.de>:
>
> On Tue, 03 Oct 2006 00:59:25 +0200, Alexander Dupuy wrote:
>
> > Without speaking to the correctness or accuracy of your arguments, I'd
> > just point out that you're not likely to advance your cause very far
> > with attacks like these,
>
> or worded differently:
>
> I am right of course,
> stop arguing already will you,
> it's you who is wrong.
>
> (There seem to be many reasons to post this lately :-( )
>
> > To return to substantive discussion on the details and merits of the
> > proposal, I would take Dave's wording:
> (...)
> > and modify it to also include recitals that have only works by a single
> > composer but avoid some of the ambiguity in Frederic's original
> > proposals:
>
> I have entered your wording to
> <http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalReleaseArtistStyle> (as rev 1) and
> then reformulated it a bit (rev 2).
>
> I now ask for
>
>   a) constructive cricisim and wiki-editing that helps to mke this as
> clear
> and precise as possible and generally to make this happen.
>
>   b) *focussed* criticism from people who believe that MusicBrainz might
> become a worse place than it is if ths guideline would become official.
>
>   c) Since this guideline would change the semantics of the database, it
> would help very much if both partise (who are for and against this change)
> would tentatively apply it to some releases on
> <http://test.musicbrainz.org/> (aka BetaEditing).
>
> consider this a formal <Request for Comment> (I seem to be the only one
> using this tag :-) )
>
>    DonRedman



I agree with points 1 and 3 of the proposal. Here is why

Point 3 is already what MB users are doing, and I believe (I may be wrong)
what the current rules recommend. So this is not a change, this is only
repeating here something which was already set elsewhere (I really should
find where ;-) )

Point 1 would only divert VA releases, which
a - would be a good thing from the VA point of view (the less things go to
VA, the better)
b - would not change much the MB semantics (VA isn't very meaningful from a
semantic point of view)

I'd rather disagree with point 2 for two reasons:
a - the limits will always be difficult to define and we risk edit wars
b - precisely, it changes the database semantics, worse it makes the
semantics vary depending on something that is, to say the least, not obvious
(from a dumb computer's point of view): the release title. =

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
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