Re: [mb-style] Historical countries proposal
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:15:21PM +0100, derGraph wrote: Sure. The Union of Independent Sovjet States (I hope my translation is correct) was founded on 1991-12-08, on 1991-12-21 eight other states joined, and 1991-12-25 Gorbachov resigned as the president. You may consider each the definite end date, but my encyclopaedia seems to prefer 1991-12-21. So 1991 it is. As of the DDR, I think we should call it East Germany, since the BRD is called Germany, the République française is called France... I would prefer East Germany too (not, er, Easy Germany as I accidentally wrote in that last email :)). --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
Re: [mb-style] Historical countries proposal
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 11:21:03PM +0100, Don Redman wrote: Do we really need two entities for a country that just changed its name and constitution, but not its boundaries. You misunderstood me, I was saying that while I don't really care whether the name is changed, the code *should* be, as it's TL now, not TP. --Nikki ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
[mb-style] Historical countries proposal
Ok, here is my proposed solution to the historical countries debate: 1. Add historical countries: - XC - Czechoslovakia [until 1993] - XD - German Democratic Republic [until 1990] - SU - Soviet Union [until 1992] 2. Fix Yugoslavia, which is in our countries list right now: - YU - Yugoslavia [until 1993] 3. Fix our current list by adding: - CS - Serbia and Montenegro 4. Establish rules for historical countries: - We only include countries currently recognized by ISO. - In addition, we recognize a few historical countries that can have more than N documented releases from that country. - We only keep track of countries with typical two letter codes. Three letter codes or even four letter codes are overkill for MusicBrainz. - If there is a release from a historical country that is not (yet) listed, add a country of origin note to the album annotation. My reasoning is that I want to keep the country list from exploding. We should not add things there that will not be used -- that only causes confusion. The arbitrary threshold of N releases is designed to keep the list from growing out of control. What's a good threshold for N? 10? 25? This proposal is not so much a Request for Comment as much as it is a sanity check. I've heard all the bits before and I am not really interested in starting a new discussion over again. HOWEVER, if you think we're making a grave mistake by proceeding with this proposal then I'd like to hear your comments. But, please spare me the I don't like it it sucks kinds of comments. I'll just ignore them. I'll address the EU issue next. May some deity have mercy on my soul. -- --ruaok Somewhere in Texas a village is *still* missing its idiot. Robert Kaye -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --http://mayhem-chaos.net ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
