On Mar 7, 2013, at 12:00 PM, Edgars Ducens <saluta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Why should we avoid historical countries? > > What about ex-Empires like Russian Empire, British Empire or Prussia? > > OK Russian Federation is heir of Russian Empire like it is for UK & British > Empire. But what about all the other territories that after collapse of these > Empires formed new countries. That means we should add Artists to countries > that never existed in their lifetime. It's more fun with Prussia, which makes > part of it now Kaliningrad (read Russian Federation) or Poland or Germany or > bunch of other countries. > Isn't it better to make "Nationality" or "Ethnic group" (this will make new > entries as Gipsy or Welsh) field instead of such inaccurate Country guessing? > > P.S. there will be as much holes as it is now if we wont add all possible > Historical countries (including Gaul and Mohawk etc. tribe territories). OK, > there will be need then ling them to "now" country, like Born in "Russian > Empire" now "Lithuania". > > And if Tchaikovsky is linked to Russian Federation why shouldn't Immanuel > Kant be to? The only option seems to be Nationality. Right, and even there we might need an option to add multiple nationalities (in the case of mixed heritage, dual citizenship, etc.) > > 2013/3/7 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren <reosare...@gmail.com> > > > On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Lemire, Sebastien <m...@benji99.ca> wrote: > I agree, I always found it unacceptable that Tchaikovsky's country was listed > as the "Russian Federation". > Perhaps like we see in a lot of places, we can have the modern equivalent > shown as well. Such as Russian Empire (present day Russian Federation) or > something like that. Or maybe it would make the history location names too > long and would look like crap in the UI... > > I'd say it's not unacceptable if you read country (as we seem to more or less > do) as "country they're linked to", which for him, right now, is clearly the > Russian Federation. Of course, we shouldn't migrate it like that to country > of *birth*, nor to *lived in*, because that'd be certainly wrong. > > -- > Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
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