No strong opinions here :)

Paul C. Bryan wrote:
> I interpret the word eponymous to mean anything named after a particular
> person (not just an artist lending their name to something), which would
> therefore currently include these examples of quartets named after
> deceased composers.
> 
> I don't mind these quartets being sorted by their namesakes, but others
> (you?) may have a strong opinion one way or the other. If this seems too
> broad, then I suppose we may need to further constrain it.
> 
> On Mon, 2009-03-02 at 20:15 +0100, Leiv Hellebo wrote:
>> Paul C. Bryan wrote:
>>> Proposal:
>>> Change the last bullet of #6 in SortNameStyle to read as follows:
>>> Artist names that contain a person's name (usually eponymous band names)
>>> sort as the person primarily, with remaining identifiers as
>>> comma-separated suffixes. Examples: "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band"
>>> has sort name "Harvey, Alex, Sensational, Band, The". "The Jimi Hendrix
>>> Experience" has sort name "Hendrix, Jimi, Experience, The".
>> Not that I mind (much), but I'd like to have clarified if you want:
>>
>> Berg, Alban, Quartet
>> Haas, Pavel, Quartet
>>
>> These two quartets were formed long after the composers were dead.
>>
>> (I am not sure how "usually eponymous band names" should be understood, 
>> but perhaps it means exactly that you'd like "Berg, Alban, Quartet"?)
>>
>> Leiv
>>
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