On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 10:47:23AM +0800, Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
The issue in short: the collaboration style guide requires and Artist
A, Artist B Artist C format which is very unnatural for Han scripts
(Chinese+Japanese). We can either make all Chinese and Japanese
collaboration artists
Trying to move forward...
As far as I can tell, the only style guidelines regulating this right
now is http://musicbrainz.org/doc/FeaturingArtistStyle. I can't find
anything to support the assertions that Artist A, Artist B Artist
C is the official style, which I believed until I actually read
On 10/25/07, Philip Jägenstedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To reiterate what I said in my edit note, I've seen the following
formats actually used for Chinese artists: 歌手甲/歌手乙/歌手丙 (full or
halfwidth slash) and 歌手甲 歌手乙 歌手丙 (full or halfwidth space). For two
artists I have seen 歌手甲 歌手乙 which is
Given that the original use of CollaborationStyle was to standardize
away some of these combinations in the first place, I don't see any
conflict. We're causing just as much trouble to our Occidental users
by altering artist names to fit a pattern as we would be to our
Oriental ones.
Philip Jägenstedt wrote:
Hi!
voiceinsideyou asked for input on
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=7696392, but I want to raise
the issue to this list.
The issue in short: the collaboration style guide requires and Artist
A, Artist B Artist C format which is very unnatural for Han
In case I have not expressed myself clearly, I am not saying that we
should ignore the current guidelines and allow anything just because
the script isn't latin. I am saying that the current guidelines may
not be very good for Chinese and Japanese artists and that some
modifications to them may be
Hi!
voiceinsideyou asked for input on
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=7696392, but I want to raise
the issue to this list.
The issue in short: the collaboration style guide requires and Artist
A, Artist B Artist C format which is very unnatural for Han scripts
(Chinese+Japanese). We
