[mb-style] CSG compromise?

[David K. Gasaway]

On 1 Mar 2008 at 14:16, Brian Schweitzer wrote:

> So until that happy day of NGS support, how do we compromise?  How can
> we ensure that the data allows the BBC to identify the work from the
> track, allows Aaron and me to tag and not find the data "quite messy",
> allows Leivhe and David to tag and have complete but not "overly"
> complete data, and still allows Lauri and her mother-in-law to tag and
> have what she wants?  

Hey, nice to see I haven't been completely forgotten in the week I've 
been away!  :)  You folks have covered a lot of ground in the past 
week, so I won't even try to repaint it all in my own perspective.  
I'll just make some general comments and move on.

I agree with the great majority of what Lauri, Leiv, Lukas, and Olivier 
have been saying.  Screw the "pop" classical releases.  Somebody found 
those crap titles adequate, obviously, and if I ever come into 
possession of one of those releases, I'll fix my local tags and move 
on.  If Lauri gives her mother-in-law a "real" classical release, then 
the CSG titles will be close to the cover, and it's all good.  (I don't 
I've yet seen Lauri argue against CSG, BTW, so let's not be too quick 
to toss her into the "kill CSG" bucket.)

> If we're aiming for "as on the liner", which liner,
> which translation, and what still gets fixed - caps, typos, mislisted
> works, etc?  

"As on the cover", rather.  Of course, sometimes the cover doesn't even 
get into track specifics, so we have to default to the liner.  In that 
case, use the language used on the cover.  If someone is motivated 
enough to enter another language from the liner, it's no skin off my 
nose.  The rest are, AFAIK, already covered by CSG and other SGs.

Now, on to the fascinating Works list RFC ...

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