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

[Andrew Conkling]

On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:24 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davitofrg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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.
>

Not that I disagree with what's being mentioned here, but can we table this
for now? This isn't really part of the RFC and is a *huge* can of worms. I
think what's been happening--leave it up to the discretion of the editor
(who usually uses his own language and/or (one of) the language(s) on the
release) and create pseudo-/transl*ation releases for other languages--has
been working fine.

If it hasn't been working fine, we can of course start discussing it. But as
mentioned on one of the other CSG-related threads recently, this really
isn't an issue specific to classical music (or this RFC ;).

Cheers,
Andrew
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