I would strongly dislike the introduction of nationality: That's a can of worms. Outsourcing the "country" issue to an external authority was one of the wiser decisions of the community. I wouldn't mingle with that. And the introduction of historical geographic entities isn't less controversial and discussions about political boundaries (historical or actual) are outside of the scope of a musical DB.
What we have now is ''*artist*'' was born/lived/died in a city or hamlet *which today is part* of ''*country*'', is perfectly correct and sufficient. On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Rachel Dwight <hibiscuskazen...@gmail.com>wrote: > > 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >
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