On 29/04/2012 08:29, practik wrote: > What's RL?
I'm not sure if that was irony, but if not, RL stands for Real Life :-) > > ... in this world, the > prefixes clearly belong at the end ... which means I have a bunch of edits > to cancel, argh. Thanks! > By the way, in doing those edits I came across some cases, mostly > performance names, that might merit attention in the guidelines. How should > we sort names like: > > Sir Aah > Dr Sir Warrior > Mark Sir Risky > Sir Paul Hotwired > Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. I agree this is a grey area. Obvious performance names which "work" like normal names: Elvis Presley, Ringo Starr, Englebert Humperdinck and so on get sorted as if they were real names, and that seems right to me. But Screaming Lord Sutch is currently "Sutch, Screaming Lord", and I suspect if you had spotted him you would have edited him too? The boundary between a performer adopting an alias name and a performance name which is obviously silly (Captain Sensible?) is a highly cultural (subjective) one. I wouldn't oppose your edits, but it would be difficult to create workable guidelines, even if we restricted ourselves to English names. > I also noticed that the Guess Sort Name button, as it's currently > programmed, recognizes "Dr." and "DJ" as prefixes and puts them at the end, > but not "Sir." So that needs a tweak as well. Yup _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
