[mb-style] RFC: Transliterations/translations, again! (now on test.musicbrainz.org)

[Alexander Dupuy]

In the spirit of beta testing, and moving this proposal beyond the stage of endless discussion, I have created a transl-tracklisting AR on test.musicbrainz.org, and used it to link various releases of the artist 女子十二乐坊 (Twelve Girls Band) http://test.musicbrainz.org/show/artist/?artistid=175461 (specifically, the different Shining Energy and Beautiful Energy releases).  While this may not be the best artist to demonstrate all the corner cases, I chose them because they were the first one to come to mind with transl(iter)ated tracklistings, and they are a Chinese group that releases also in Japanese and English, so that there are at least some issues about "original" and "official" that can be beta tested.  And, they are not so wildly prolific as some of the Japanese groups, although the twelve girls certainly had a period of significant popularity worldwide, so that the number of releases is fairly modest. If you can think of other artists/examples that can be used, feel free to apply the new AR on the test server to them as well, and post links here.  I hope that this will inform and enlighten our discussion of this proposal.  If you think that changes should be made, feel free to tweak the name/link phrases/description of the new AR as you see fit.  The current text of these is: transl-tracklisting (2) forward: is the original language/script track listing of reverse: is an alternate language/script track listing of description: Indicates that an album has translated or transliterated titles on another album release. This relationship does not indicate a cover where the lyrics have been translated (that should be indicated with "cover" instead, although both relationships could apply in some cases). This relationship should only be used when the number and order of tracks on the two albums are identical, and each of the titles corresponds in meaning. (hmmm. perhaps that last bit should be "corresponds in meaning or pronunciation" instead?) @alex -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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