On 09/06/2013 12:25 AM, Tom Crocker wrote: > Hi Mike > Good question and I'm not sure if I know the answer. While it's possible > that the difference in guidance is some legacy of NGS, it's also > possible that SPY is not seen as an error, because it's still > capitalised so it's still an acronym. Whereas Spy would be an error. > Similarly, the addition of a space in a deliberately compound word is an > error. So I think SPY is more about style than error, unless you know > S.P.Y is precious about the dots. But that's all a guess. Perhaps warp - > who did a good job converting the guidance for NGS - can say?
Thanks :) I don't have any particularly useful opinion on this topic. I believe that whether a particular inconsistency is an error or intentional is something you cannot know without asking the artist. But often we cannot simply ask the artist or even if we can the artist probably doesn't care. To some extent you can then look at what communities around particular artists or genres prefer. Some communities care about little variations in capitalization or punctuation a lot more than other communities, so for those genres I am more likely to assume a variation is intentional and should be preserved. There's also genres where typically a lot less care is put into back cover tracklists and such, so such releases just have a lot more errors, and I am more likely to assume a variation is not intentional. Similarly releases in which the artist did not have any direct involvement (leaks, bootleg releases, compilation albums, official live albums, etc..) will often have less care put into their packaging or iTunes metadata than an official release and any variation there I will usually assume is an error. In the end, if you don't know if a variation is intentional or not, pick whichever you prefer and move on. Probably most people don't care so it doesn't matter, if someone does care they can always change it later and argue their position in the edit note. -- kuno / warp. _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
