Re: [mailing] [mb-style] RFC: Opera Track Style

2007-03-02 Thread Marco Sola
Original Message From: Aaron Cooper To: MusicBrainz Style Mailing List Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 12:11 AM Subject: [mailing] [mb-style] RFC: Opera Track Style Okay, I think we need to finally make the OperaTrackStyle and official style guideline. Don Giovanni, Op. 500: Act I,

Re: [mailing] [mb-style] RFC: Standardizing Classical Release Titles

2007-01-21 Thread Marco Sola
Il Monday, January 22, 2007 6:54 AM Aaron Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Multiple works, same type: All ok for me, theory and pratice. Symphonies Nos. 1, 2 (...) String Quartets, Op. 127, 130-133, 135 (...) (disc 2) Why Nos. and not Ops.? Someone known where No. comes from and if

Re: [mailing] [mb-style] 'Op. XX No. YY' or 'Op. XX, No. YY'

2006-11-28 Thread Marco Sola
Il Tuesday, November 28, 2006 8:31 AM mll [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Just take care of not scaring away good-will newcomers by reverting their changes, a quick mail to explain the revert would suffice i think. Yes, I could have been more communicative. Looks like Andrew reverted the

Re: [mailing] [mb-style] 'Op. XX No. YY' or 'Op. XX, No. YY'

2006-11-27 Thread Marco Sola
Il Monday, November 27, 2006 6:47 PM mll [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: the case where a track is numbered 'Op. XX No. YY', like 'Mazurka in B major, Op. 63 No. 1' (example at http://musicbrainz.org/track/576a7830-8240-4611-804c-256ee0e4bce3.html). I can see to ways of expressing it: 1)

Re: [mailing] [mb-style] 'Op. XX No. YY' or 'Op. XX, No. YY'

2006-11-27 Thread Marco Sola
mll wrote: 1) 'Mazurka in B major, Op. 63 No. 1' OR 2) 'Mazurka in B major, Op. 63, No. 1' Just be aware that there's a lot of 'Mazurka in B major, Op. 63/1' around: are they allowed? should they be changed? are they simply not part of this rule that is only about commas? 3) 'Mazurka in B

Re: [mb-style] RFV: ClassicalReleaseArtistStyle

2006-10-16 Thread Marco Sola
Frederic Da Vitoria wrote: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalReleaseArtistStyle Not a veto, but isn't that performer should be designated both as ReleaseArtist and TrackArtist a bit exagerated? I mean, assigning an artist both as ReleaseARtist and TrackArtist is redundent in the current

Re: [mb-style] RFC: ClassicalReleaseArtistStyle

2006-10-03 Thread Marco Sola
Don Redman wrote: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalReleaseArtistStyle For other references see http://lists.musicbrainz.org/pipermail/musicbrainz-style/2006-January/thread.html#1371 ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mb-style] RFC[?]: Update Classical Style Guide to account forrecital discs

2006-10-02 Thread Marco Sola
Dave Smey wrote: My proposed language would be: Recitals by a particular artist: In cases where a release contains works from multiple composers but all works are attributable to a single group or performer, that group or performer may be designated the ReleaseArtist, with each TrackArtist

[mb-style] Latin capitalization style [was: Whait is as what is not off topic]

2006-06-06 Thread Marco Sola
Don Redman wrote: There are style issues which drop out of focus again, and I do not want this to happen. Do you know what happened to the latin capitalization style? Correct me if I'm wrong but I recall you said you had sumbmitted the matter to Ruoak and we're waiting for the answer. Ciao

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Latin style guidelines

2006-05-29 Thread Marco Sola
derGraph wrote: Veto! Second, and more grave, a Google search for De Bello Gallico [1] shows that the proposed capitalization is almost exclusively used on Italian sites, and the majority uses the capitalization I proposed here. http://www-tech.mit.edu/Shakespeare/hamlet/hamlet.1.1.html

Re: [mb-style] Latin guidelines RFC

2006-05-22 Thread Marco Sola
derGraph wrote: I disagree that the Carmina Burana uses pre-medieval Latin. It's a rather new composition (written 1935/1936) with lyrics from the 11th and 12th century. Damn right, I've always tought it was some roman pagan verses. Anyhow, I doubt you'll find anything pre-medieval which has

Re: [mb-style] Fw: [mailing] [MusicBrainz Wiki] Update ofClassicalStyleGuide by Keschte

2006-05-16 Thread Marco Sola
iao MArco (ClutchEr2) On 5/16/06, Marco Sola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Il Tuesday, May 16, 2006 8:55 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: The comment on the change is: terminology changes album-release. punctuation after current practice. I didn't guess it could be that easy: any

Re: [mailing] [mb-style] WoO or Wwo

2006-05-15 Thread Marco Sola
Il Monday, May 15, 2006 11:15 AM Frederic Da Vitoria [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I first thought Wwo was a mispelling, but I just learned that those two abreviations have the same meaning. I know, it is not very common, but it is used for a few (too?) well-known works. I think we should

Re: [mailing] [mb-style] What makes a release in Classical?

2006-05-09 Thread Marco Sola
Il Tuesday, May 09, 2006 10:03 AM Frederic Da Vitoria [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I had a feeling (but I may be wrong, since I couldn't find any written confirmation about this) that in classical MB admitted entering different releases (in terms of dates, country or publisher) as long as the

Re: [mailing] Re: [mb-style] Are major performers still required in the album titlesof classical music?

2006-05-05 Thread Marco Sola
Maurits Meulenbelt wrote: I believe that that styleguide indeed precedes AR No, it does not. And it clearly says ReleaseTitle *OR* AR: choose what you prefere but you should add info to allow release disambiguation. but for the moment I would prefer keeping that info in the album title,

[mb-style] RFV: Classical common names

2006-04-29 Thread Marco Sola
So, after collecting comments for 9 days, and after 7 days of silence, I'm asking for veto about the following addition to http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ClassicalStyleGuide for a couple of days as per http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/StyleCouncil * '''Common names''' * It is the way works are

Re: [mailing] [mb-style] Hard time determining the MB title styleof a classicalbum

2006-04-10 Thread Marco Sola
Il Monday, April 10, 2006 6:38 PM Age Bosma [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Exmaples of waht I would do it's better than any explanation 03 - Concerto for Violin in E major Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 La primavera (Spring): III. Danza pastorale: Allegro Why turn around 'Danza pastorale' and

Re: [mailing] [mb-style] Hard time determining the MB title styleof a classicalbum

2006-04-10 Thread Marco Sola
Il Monday, April 10, 2006 6:38 PM Age Bosma [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Exmaples of waht I would do it's better than any explanation 03 - Concerto for Violin in E major Op. 8 No. 1, RV 269 La primavera (Spring): III. Danza pastorale: Allegro Why turn around 'Danza pastorale' and 'Allegro'?

Re: [mailing] Re: Call for StyleSecretary Help: Let's try discussing/decidingthisin IRC (was [mb-style] add instrument request: vacuum cleaner)

2006-03-28 Thread Marco Sola
Il Tuesday, March 28, 2006 2:39 AM Jan van Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I'm just deducing the current system doesn't work yet, because of personal misunderstanding between people. Or full agreement, like when an instrument is played by a secretary. Sorry if it seems rude but it simply

[mb-style] Two issues here

2006-03-24 Thread Marco Sola
1) Do CSG override cover art? IMHO cover art and liner notes are overridden so much that when is really needed it has to be. 2 and 8 what? No.? Op.? [catalog]? - 2) Also IMHO, approving moderation with pending Nos should be a) disabled b) anyway avoided by any automod. Ciao MArco

[mb-style] Re: Two issues here

2006-03-24 Thread Marco Sola
Sorry, link missing http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4488092 Ciao MArco (ClutchEr2) ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style

Re: [other] Re: [mailing] Re: [mb-style] Re: Two issues here

2006-03-24 Thread Marco Sola
- Original Message - From: Björn Krombholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: MusicBrainz style discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 8:50 PM Subject: [other] Re: [mailing] Re: [mb-style] Re: Two issues here IMHO CoverArt should be followed paying much attention even in popular

[mb-style] test2

2006-03-23 Thread Marco Sola
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Re: [mailing] Re: [mb-style] Europe vs EU vs STFU

2006-03-23 Thread Marco Sola
Il Thursday, March 23, 2006 3:15 PM Chris Bransden [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: i'm a rock moderator at discogs - i've researched 1000s of releases, and it really is 1% that are genuinly europe-wide releases of the same pressing We are the ones of the vacuum-cleaner instrument: even if it

[mb-style] Release Language

2006-03-07 Thread Marco Sola
Sorry, I'm without IRC access (and I wont have it for a while) otherwise I would not bother here. Generally, should Release Language go with phisical media liner notes or with the part of them we decide to bring into MB? More discussion here http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4383837

[mb-style] Splitting multiple works in Album Title

2006-02-06 Thread Marco Sola
I don't have very much to add to comments here http://musicbrainz.org/showmod.html?modid=4213547 I'm just asking for some feedback. The (possibily) change could be done directly in http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/MultipleTitleStyle if we feel it could involve other Album than classical ones or as

Re: [mb-style] Call for help on Spanish Capitalization

2006-01-31 Thread Marco Sola
Original Message From: Michel RudoyTo: MusicBrainz style discussionSent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:46 PMSubject: Re: [mb-style] Call for help on Spanish Capitalization http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/CapitalizationStandardSpanish And now, how or who changes the "Guess case" button

Re: [mb-style] % in URL Relationships

2006-01-30 Thread Marco Sola
Il Monday, January 30, 2006 8:17 AM Schika [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameo_(band) to reach the same information. Note that in MB's interface, the last ) is not dropped as it is here in this email so it's perfectly usable. wrong, you provided the proof for

Re: [mb-style] % in URL Relationships

2006-01-30 Thread Marco Sola
Il Monday, January 30, 2006 12:34 PM Simon Reinhardt [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: Wikipedia produces these URLs. And they really don't have to be readable because you know from the conext where you are led to (Artist X has a wikipedia page at says it all!). I wish just to poit out that is

Re: [mb-style] % in URL Relationships

2006-01-30 Thread Marco Sola
Il Monday, January 30, 2006 2:57 PM Steve Wyles [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: I wish just to poit out that is not only a matter of readability: those links with % does not work on some pc I use and I hears other users complaining with this. I'd be interested to know what OS and browser they

[mb-style] SG5DR and classical

2006-01-25 Thread Marco Sola
I didn' see any official statement yet so I feel free to write down some thoughts. I saw only recently that Picard is ready to manage AlbumArtist and TrackArtist. Also for this reason we need to give users a consistent way to tag their track, I mean we have to choose where performer and

Re: [mailing] Re: [mb-style] SG5DR and classical

2006-01-25 Thread Marco Sola
On Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:53 PM, Björn Krombholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you think about it, this could help to soften the infamous (and hardly understand by users) classical exception rule of composer as Artist and narrow a bit classical and other music rules. I'm not sure

Re: [mb-style] Release Countries

2006-01-19 Thread Marco Sola
Not edited by me. http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ReleaseAnnotationStyle http://musicbrainz.org/edit/annotation/show.html?annotationid=17195 How could these experienced moderators talk about an EU release? ___ Musicbrainz-style mailing list

Re: [mailing] Re: [mb-style] Release Countries

2006-01-19 Thread Marco Sola
On Thursday, January 19, 2006 8:45 PM, Björn Krombholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I proposed a definition of release. Do you agree with that one? If not what would you define a release to be? The release event? Yep, I agree, because it's the definition used everywhere else. No, almost not

Re: [mailing] Re: [mb-style] Release Country ReQUEST

2006-01-09 Thread Marco Sola
Il Monday, January 09, 2006 6:46 PM Björn Krombholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: No, there's a problem underlying: how do you define a release? To me a release is the physical cd which is boild so to be sold in a market: a brasilian release has portuguese liner notes and a Eu reelase has

Re: [mailing] Re: [mb-style] Release Country ReQUEST

2006-01-08 Thread Marco Sola
On Sunday, January 08, 2006 5:28 PM, Schika [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The EU is clearly defined and also has an ISO code, like other countries, even though it's not technically a country (although it exhibits several properties of a country). I will gladly submit a patch to include the EU, but