[mb-style] RFC: Works lists (and other related changes then implied)

Aaron Cooper cooperaa at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 12:14:50 UTC 2008


On 4-Mar-08, at 4:48 AM, Leiv Hellebo wrote:

> Aaron Cooper wrote:
> On the topic of languages, I think we should try to pick one
>> language per composer  (as we've done with the wiki works lists)
>
> One language per work in Works lists sounds good. If the composer e.g.
> lived abroad and used another language during that period, it's to be
> expected that different languages might be best.
>
>
> do
>> reduce the duplication.
>>
>
>
> If you're talking about removing/merging releases with track  
> listings in
> different languages, then I see no need to reduce duplication: They're
> not dupes.

I meant duplication in the works lists.  But I do think that releases  
with identical music recordings but different title languages are  
duplicates because they duplicate ARs, they duplicate release dates,  
they duplicate the work to manage titles..........

-Aaron



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