Re: [mb-style] Aliases for works

2013-11-26 Thread Per Starbäck
> > Agreed, for cases where it doesn't cause confusion (classical mostly), but > here it feels problematic. > I think it's hard to avoid confusion in some cases, since "normal" usage isn't always the same as Musicbrainz terminology. Here versions in different languages are different works, but othe

Re: [mb-style] Aliases for works

2013-11-15 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
Agreed, for cases where it doesn't cause confusion (classical mostly), but here it feels problematic. On 15 Nov 2013 17:07, "Calvin Walton" wrote: > On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 10:59 +0100, Per Starbäck wrote: > > When is a translated title of a work applicable as an alias of that work? > > There is a

Re: [mb-style] Aliases for works

2013-11-15 Thread Calvin Walton
On Fri, 2013-11-15 at 10:59 +0100, Per Starbäck wrote: > When is a translated title of a work applicable as an alias of that work? > There is a translation of the Lennon/McCartney song "Yesterday" into > Latvian, called "Vakardiena", and that is also entered as the Latvian alias > of the original.

[mb-style] Aliases for works

2013-11-15 Thread Per Starbäck
When is a translated title of a work applicable as an alias of that work? There is a translation of the Lennon/McCartney song "Yesterday" into Latvian, called "Vakardiena", and that is also entered as the Latvian alias of the original. I got confused by "Yesterday (Vakardiena)" when I was making a