[mb-style] RFC: Change BoxSetNameStyle

[Chris B]

On 24/03/2008, Brian Schweitzer <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Olivier <viapanda at gmail.com> wrote:
>  > Just catching this up right now.
>  >
>  >  2008/3/24, Brian Schweitzer <brian.brianschweitzer at gmail.com>:
>  >
>  > >
>  >  > The absence of that section of the guideline wouldn't provide any
>  >  >  justification for such a *theoretical* merging of the smaller into the
>  >  >  bigger.  It would, however, also not provide the type of justification
>  >  >  it currently is *in actuality* being mis-used for, ie,
>  >  >  merging/retitiling box set releases into non-box set releases.
>  >  >
>  >  >  Actually, if I can amend this RFC, I just noticed while double
>  >  >  checking for any guideline that could be mis-used for either purpose
>  >  >  that there's an additional guideline which also provides justification
>  >  >  for "unboxing", and also ought to be removed:
>  >  >
>  >  >  http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/WhatDefinesAUniqueRelease under section 11:
>  >  >
>  >  >  "A BoxSet consisting exactly of a set of discs previously released in
>  >  >  a standalone form should not be added (see BoxSetNameStyle), but the
>  >  >  standalone discs instead. That obviously means that such a BoxSet
>  >  >  discs may be merged into the standalone versions."
>  >  >
>  >  >  I'm not quite sure how obvious this is, considering it's counter to
>  >  >  current practice
>  >
>  >  Well, *your* current practice? :-)
>  >  </teasing>
>
>
> Current enough practice that the inverse of BSNS #1 is written in or
>  implied in other guidelines, such as BonusDiscStyle.  ;)

http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/DiscNumberStyle
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/BonusDisc
how so?