[mb-users] re: Capitalization or not

[Mangled]

2006/9/1, Björn Krombholz <fox.box at gmail.com>:
> And that's what I think there is no need for a complicated guideline.
> There are about 100-150 album titles in the DB, which have a title
> starting with an apostrophe. The 'Round Midnight example seems to
> prefer the capitalized style, so be it (in fact most releases I found,
> use all caps titles).

The Round Midnight example (as stated previously) is a more
complicated issue (even the musicians don't know what is the name of
the tune - Yllona mentioned a trivia about Vaughan wondering if it was
Round About Midnight or Around Midnight or 'round Midnight). So I
think we shouldn't take it as a general example (while of course this
started the thread... my fault...)

We of course don't need a *complicated* guideline, still this issue
rose up a number of times already in edit notes, so, we need *a*
guideline.

Sure, one may think this is a trivial issue (if it concerned titles
played one or two times). In the cases of tunes played
hundred/thousands of times, it's not... and as some moderators care
about harmonizing such compositions names, some work is wasted when
editors go in opposite ways.


> I've attached lists of album + track titles that match problem. Maybe
> someone wants to take a look at it to see whether a guideline would
> work for all cases. I won't do it because I really don't care that
> much about capitalization. If it was only me, I would use a much
> simpler rule like everything small or everyt word starting with a
> capital letter -- something that could be applied automatically,
> because in my opinion people are wasting a lot of time with edits
> fixing capitalization issues.

Of course I can't share this opinion. From a french pov,
capitalization is very important as it changes the meaning of things -
though, in the very case of Round Midnight, it's not important, and
though, most time, capitalization doesn't change the way it sounds :)


Regards,


And thanks for the attachments, very interesting.
Do you think it's possible to have the same extract for titles
containing aphesis in the middle of them?

- Olivier aka dmppanda