[mb-style] Clean up CSG

[Aaron Cooper]

On 8-Jan-08, at 7:00 AM, Brant Gibbard wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: musicbrainz-style-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org
>> [mailto:musicbrainz-style-bounces at lists.musicbrainz.org] On
>> Behalf Of Jim DeLaHunt
>> Sent: January-08-08 3:45 AM
>> To: musicbrainz-style at lists.musicbrainz.org
>> Subject: Re: [mb-style] Clean up CSG
>> I very much agree that this needs to be done.  Classical,
>> Opera, and Musicals is about 80% of what I'm doing in MB.
>> And I'm one of the newly-arrived and active Classical Music
>> editors who is oblivious to the oral tradition of past IRC
>> chats and edit notes, so I merrily edit away, taking the CSG
>> at face value, or rather getting lost in its back corners.
>> To the extent that what the CSG says isn't what we want to be
>> done, editors like me head off on all kind of tangents.  Us
>> novice keeners will be more effective with the CSG revised.
>
> Hear, hear! I am in the same position as a new contributor, and  
> having some
> of the same difficulties in working out what the current practice  
> actually
> is, as opposed to what the documentation says it is.

Great to see so many "newer" faces interested in classical edits and  
cleaning up the CSG!

As one of the editors who has a fairly decent grasp of the "oral  
traditions" of the CSG, I agree that we definitely need to get these  
current practices documented (if they're not already) to make  
classical edits less of a burden on new editors.

-Aaron (cooperaa)