[mb-style] RFV: renaming JapaneseArtistsException to
JapaneseArtistsClarification (was: JapaneseArtistsException)
Philip Jägenstedt
philip at foolip.org
Wed Feb 27 10:02:04 UTC 2008
Indeed, I've come across very few Chinese artists which have any
amount of consistency at all in capitalization and/or spelling. For
the few cases where they are consistent and seemingly deliberate (e.g.
my little airport) ArtistIntent applies and there is no problem.
Philip
On 2/27/08, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:40 AM, Brian Schweitzer
> <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure I quite understand why the page name change would need an
> > RFV - the page itself is still a proposal, not an official
> > guideline...
>
>
> It didn't, and wasn't RFV'ed, and was renamed over a week ago.
>
>
> > Anyhow, my issue with the page's title isn't even the exception part,
> > it's the "Japanese" part. This isn't something exclusive to JASRAC.
> > Korean artists, Chinese artists, etc all often do this too, just to
> > name two other groups with which I run into this same concept.
>
>
> To be honest, I rarely see this level of consistency in the other
> languages, and we don't see editors routinely busting an album by
> reconstructing titles in the other languages.
>
> For it's purpose it works admirably, and I'm pretty sure even the
> densest of editors could survive, if I paste the url into their Korean
> album edits, 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
>
>
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