Re: [mb-style] RFV: Removed banned characters (from misc. guideline)

2010-11-29 Thread jacobbrett
Alex Mauer wrote: > > On 11/29/2010 12:12 PM, Nikki wrote: >> Hmm... I have a couple of issues with it at the moment. >> >> I don't understand what the ditto mark is doing there... It's not a >> quotation mark and where exactly would we use it anyway? > > Because it’s one of those items for whi

Re: [mb-style] Producer vs Composer and remixes in hip hop music

2010-11-29 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Nikki wrote: > Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: > > > In hip hop, it is usual that the person who creates the music is > > credited as "producer". In some electronic music records the person who > > creates the music is also credited as "producer", while in other

Re: [mb-style] Producer vs Composer and remixes in hip hop music

2010-11-29 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 1:23 PM, Nikki wrote: > Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: > > > The least bad way I can see of working with all this would be having 2 > > different works for every "standard" hip hop recording. One for the > > vocal track and another for the beat / instrumental track, and

Re: [mb-style] Reality vs. Legality

2010-11-29 Thread Bill Purosky
Which AR's would we use then? Using "All My Loving" as an example, and assuming "Written by" eventually passes, which would be more correct: 1. "Written by" Lennon & "Written by" McCartney 2. "Written by" Lennon & "Composed by", "Lyrics by" McCartney 3. "Composed by", "Lyrics by" Lennon & "

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Removed banned characters (from misc. guideline)

2010-11-29 Thread Alex Mauer
On 11/29/2010 12:12 PM, Nikki wrote: > Hmm... I have a couple of issues with it at the moment. > > I don't understand what the ditto mark is doing there... It's not a > quotation mark and where exactly would we use it anyway? Because it’s one of those items for which a neutral quotation mark would

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Removed banned characters (from misc. guideline)

2010-11-29 Thread Nikki
Hmm... I have a couple of issues with it at the moment. I don't understand what the ditto mark is doing there... It's not a quotation mark and where exactly would we use it anyway? I think saying to use dashes as they appear on the release doesn't work. It makes sense to say that for quotes, bu

[mb-style] RFV: Removed banned characters (from misc. guideline)

2010-11-29 Thread Alex Mauer
The RFC period for this proposal[1] has passed, and so it moves on to RFV. The RFV period will end on Wednesday, 2010-12-1. Since the opening of the RFC, some text was added to explain in more detail where and when to use the non-generic punctuation characters. Some text was taken from Paul C.

Re: [mb-style] Reality vs. Legality

2010-11-29 Thread Mark Woodson
+1 to using the publicly attributed credit. I can see how having the various bits of other information available would be cool, but I think it would be infinitely simpler to open what seems a likely can of worms. I think the benefit is not worth the additional complication. -Mark / InSinU8 On Su

Re: [mb-style] RFC: Capitalization Standard Japanese

2010-11-29 Thread jesus2099
Hello, I heard about this RFC (request for "comments?") through the chatlogger. http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2010/2010-11/2010-11-28.html#T00-33-10-62241 To start with, I would like to say that, even if Hepburn was created with the english readers in mind, I would agree any romani