[mb-style] CSGStandard: Ready for prime time?

[Andrew Conkling]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:05 PM, Brian Schweitzer <
brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Andrew Conkling
> <andrew.conkling at gmail.com> wrote:
> > For context, this arose from a series of edits, namely:
> > http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8482467.
>
>  I think we've moved past that original concept, but need to get the
> works list stuff finished and implemented before we can actually make
> use of it.


But it's being used already.


> I would note that the real problem in that series of edits
> wasn't the use of CSGStandard, but rather the practice of questioning
> an editor and suggesting corrections to the edits being made, without
> actually checking to see if the suggested changes for the edits made
> sense, were factually correct, or following the linked document back
> to the source (CSGStandard/Mozart, in this case) to even look at the
> reference url provided by the editor.
>

As I said in the edit, I wasn't suggesting a correction. I'm sorry that was
unclear. I did look at the CSGStandard/Mozart page to examine what was being
suggested (why do you think I didn't do this?), but that page didn't give me
any more confidence about its material, because it had no sources. I believe
you when you say that there was a lot of effort and research that went into
this, but this is only after it was explained to me. Thus, I think it's
fundamentally important that it be visible on that page.

It seems like you get the impression that I don't like the CSGStandard
initiative. If that's the case, know that I like the idea, but I don't think
we're there yet, and I don't think it should be used in edits until then; we
need a lot more consensus (IMO), a (generally) positive RFC process, and a
successful RFV. As far as I know (please correct me if I'm wrong), that's
what we need for all OfficialStyleGuideline documentation in MusicBrainz.

Cheers,
Andrew
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