There currently are two related issues from the NGS developers which need
debate and decision by the style list. Before I move either to RFC, I'd
like to see if we can figure out just what guidance the RFC should actually
give.
As you may know, one of the new things under NGS is that artists now
The second question is one I've seen discussed (in the hypothetical, if we
ever did have artist genders) many many times, including in
http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2010/2010-01/2010-01-20.html#T18-26-42-754738
Question: Person artists currently can be set to (blank), male, and
I would agree. I think assigning gender to a group would be a Bad
Idea. It's likely to be a giant headache populating, gathering and
vetting and an even bigger headache managing the information
temporally. What happens when the lineup changes and suddenly a male
group picks up a female lead? How
On 18/02/2010 11:50 p.m., Brian Schweitzer wrote:
Personally, I don't think groups should have genders. Would simply a
group, like New Kids on the Block, being known as a boy band then
make it a male group, rather than simply a group - and if so,
wouldn't whatever special meaning is being
On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 16:50:20 +0100, Brian Schweitzer
brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com wrote:
Question: *Person* artists have genders. Should *group* artists also be
allowed to have a gender? If so, what would a male group, a female
group, or other group genders, pending decision of the
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 4:55 PM, Brian Schweitzer
brian.brianschweit...@gmail.com wrote:
The second question is one I've seen discussed (in the hypothetical, if we
ever did have artist genders) many many times, including in
From an English perspective, where plurals have no gender, I'm
definitely not in favour of having genders for groups.
From a French perspective, while there seems to be some utility for
localization (ils, elles), I can't help but wonder if localization
templates couldn't just address this by
Gender is a social construct, and is always necessarily correlated to
genetics, birth defect, surgery, etc.
I propose that gender is all MB should be noting. MB is not a DNA or
health records database.
My vote would be for: male, female, blank (unknown).
If a gender changes, my vote would be to
Not to get off topic, and I'm not the i18n genders expert, but I've been led
to believe it's gets complicated; Romanian with three genders, various
gender-based sentence-construction issues, etc - ie, things where a simple
(if ugly) he/she simply doesn't work in i18n. Just with regards to French
I meant to say and is *NOT* always necessarily correlated to genetics,
etc.
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 08:25 -0800, Paul C. Bryan wrote:
Gender is a social construct, and is always necessarily correlated to
genetics, birth defect, surgery, etc.
I propose that gender is all MB should be noting. MB
On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 3:48 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria davito...@gmail.comwrote:
No reason that I can see. So how shall we do it?
I suggest that mentioning what the date is for could be useful, something
like rec:1955 or rec.1955, which would allow to indicate a remastering
date (mast:2002)
Brant Gibbard wrote:
I think it needs to be clarified (and made as clear as possible in whatever
explanatory information is shown on the page where this field is entered)
whether this is field is intended to hold the gender (a grammatical term)
or sex (a biological term).
As far as I'm
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 10:55:09AM -0500, Brian Schweitzer wrote:
The second question is one I've seen discussed (in the hypothetical, if we
ever did have artist genders) many many times, including in
http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2010/2010-01/2010-01-20.html#T18-26-42-754738
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