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

[Frederic Da Vitoria]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 1:14 PM, Aaron Cooper <cooperaa at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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..........
>

I agree they are duplicates, but I believe we will have to wait until the MB
database evolves more before solving this problem.  I think NGS specifically
addresses this issue.

-- 
Frederic Da Vitoria
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-style/attachments/20080304/f95c26c2/attachment.htm