2011/7/26 Lukáš Lalinský <lalin...@gmail.com>: > I've seen that many editors are unhappy about the differences between > track and recording style guidelines. As far as I understand, the main > goal of the relaxed track style guidelines was to simplify editing for > new users. This is not what is happening in practice, because all > tracks have to be linked to recordings and therefore somebody has to > make sure the recordings follow the style guidelines, which means one > of these options applies: > > 1) The original editor has to learn the recording style guidelines anyway. > 2) The original editor ignores recordings and MB starts getting less > useful data. > 3) Some other editor fixes the recordings, which adds even more work > for voters. > > Apart from this issue, I believe that most editors prefer to have > normalized track titles. There is a minority of users who would like > track titles that more closely follow album covers, but NGS doesn't > provide a good technical solution to this. > > I propose that the current recording and release group style > guidelines are applied to tracks and releases as well. The change > would involve removing the track/release section from the wiki, and > modifying other sections to mention that they apply to both recordings > and tracks. This will gives us a starting point from which we can move > forward and decide if there are situations where some particular > recording style guidelines can be relaxed for tracks. > > This proposal does not include classical tracks or any other > situations that were previously excluded from the normal style > guidelines. > > Lukas > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >
It's been 9 days so this could probably progress to RFV. It seems to have majority support. -- Andii :-) _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
