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Our list of countries comes from an ISO standard: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/ISO_3166-1_alpha-2 Our only user-assigned code is XW, for [Worldwide]. As a result, I'm not sure how possible it is to add countries. This may require more than a simple RFC-then-add-it-to-the-DB, and might not happen for a while as a result, even if we do decide it's a good idea. However, I'm otherwise in support; historical countries would be nice to get into MB. There are a number of others, including http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/MBS-667 (and I know reosarevok has been asking about adding Archbishopric of Salzburg forever too :P). On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 02:35:11PM -0400, Lemire, Sebastien wrote: > This is the first time I'm making a RFC Proposal, hoping this is the correct > method... > > I'd like to propose the addition of three historical countries to the list > of countries > > This is mainly for Classical music composers. > - Prussia (historical 1525-1947) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prussia) > - Russian Empire (historical 1721-1917) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia) > and (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Empire) > - Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (historical 1917-1922) ( > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Soviet_Federative_Socialist_Republic) > > IMO, It's important to have pre-soviet Russia in the country list because of > the wealth of Russian Romantic/Post-Romantic composers in the repertoire. > Russian Federation, since it's only be in existence since 1991 doesn't feel > right. > > Perhaps the two Russias can be combined in one country, but having them > separate seems more logical and accurate. > Anyone with a deeper knowledge of these countries histories, feel free to > make adjustments, corrections or comments. > > The RFC period should expire on June 27. > > Thanks > Sebastien > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style -- Ian McEwen <ianmcorvi...@ianmcorvidae.net> <ih...@hampshire.edu> A262 D5C4 40CB 0E1C 5F24 C3A1 ABED 1ABD 7131 A76F http://ianmcorvidae.net/
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