[mailing] Re: [mb-users] Titles in Artist Names

[Marco Sola]

Il Thursday, December 28, 2006 2:45 PM 
Todd O'Bryan <toddobryan at mac.com> ha scritto:

>>> We need to reach a consensus and decide what to do about titles as
>>> they relate to artist names. Currently, some composers, e.g.,
>>> 
>>> Sir Edward Elgar
>>> Sir Charles Villiers Stanford
>>> 
>>> are listed with their knighthood title. Others are not.
>>> 
>>> My personal feeling is that the title is not part of the name any
>>> more than Mr., Miss, or Mrs. would be; it's simply an honorific.
>>> 
>>> How would people feel about:
>>> 
>>> Sir Elton John

As always, all was discussed before

http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=2472914

>> Maybe we could put the title after the name: Elton John (Sir). There
>> already was a related discussion 2 months ago (see "Ustad & Pandit
>> titles"). The conclusion at that time was we should use aliases.
> 
> I like the aliases idea, but if we reach a consensus, we need to add
> it to the style guide and go through the database to fix the
> composers with Sirs.

I would simply stick and rely on wikipedia. So, no "Sir".

Ciao

MArco (ClutchEr2)