[mb-users] Change in sort name guidelines

Philip Jägenstedt philip at foolip.org
Thu Oct 4 05:57:16 UTC 2007


Hi all!

See http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/SortNameStyle for a small change in
the sort name style guidelines. The first point as been changed from

All ArtistSortNames should be in Latin script. For Japanese, Chinese,
Greek, etc. ArtistNames this means they have to be transliterated.

to

1. All ArtistSortNames should be in Latin script. If the ArtistName is
in a non-Latin script, use the transliterated or translated name by
which the artist is commonly known.

This is a small change to bring the guidlines into line with current
practice -- allowing the taken English name of artists (particularly
east asian ones) to be used as the sort name if that is the name by
which they are know to international audiences.

Here are two edits in line with the new guidlines (which revert
changes I made to conform with the old guidelines):

http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=7609998
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=7610000

Philip



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