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

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

[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

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,

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] 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 aei...@gmail.com 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

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 which a