> What about when a series consistently uses "Vol."? The current volume
> numbers guideline permits anything if it's used consistently ("volume",
> "book", "tome", just the number, etc) as long as it's not an
> abbreviation, which just seems completely arbitrary to me.
>
> I can understand making a series consistent within itself, but expanding
> abbreviations for the sake of abbreviations doesn't really make sense to me.
>
> Nikki
>That's a fair question. For me personally, I like to have all my data normalized the same, so I'd still prefer to see all "Volumes" handled the same across the db, but maybe that's just me ... so this would still bother me, but I have to admit I don't have a strong argument against it. However, if we made that an exception, then that would require the user to know what the titles of all the other releases in the series are before being able to enter the data correctly. Also, what about those where there isn't a series at all but just a single release which happens to be given a "Vol 1" title? Just things to consider. Jeff _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
