Re: [mb-style] RFV: Featured artists clarification

2013-12-14 Thread SwissChris
Sorry for coming in so late, but maybe we should go back to RFC and rethink the whole thing: I understand and share Ross Tyler's concerns about making a guideline singloing out just one word. Right now what seems to be the consensus about the *general* guideline use whatever link-term is written

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Featured artists clarification

2013-12-14 Thread Frederik Freso S. Olesen
Den 14-12-2013 13:24, SwissChris skrev: Sorry for coming in so late, but maybe we should go back to RFC and rethink the whole thing: I understand and share Ross Tyler's concerns about making a guideline [...] This RFC is not making (or even changing!) a guideline, it's rewording an already

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Featured artists clarification

2013-12-14 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
Pretty much exactly what Freso said, with my style leader hat on. For further improvements please send a second RFC in a couple days :) On 14 Dec 2013 15:05, Frederik Freso S. Olesen freso...@gmail.com wrote: Den 14-12-2013 13:24, SwissChris skrev: Sorry for coming in so late, but maybe we

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Featured artists clarification

2013-12-14 Thread David Saunders
Also, I would think that our guidance would include the reason(s) why featuring is so special that it needs to be normalized while all other words are not. Without this rationale, I am afraid, this guidance is just dogma. The problem here is that we are dealing with a genre specific

[mb-style] RFV: Featured artists clarification

2013-12-13 Thread August Janse
Expected expiration date: December 15 Bug tracker: http://tickets.musicbrainz.org/browse/STYLE-270 Wiki proposal: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Tularion/Featured_artists_clarification Forum discussion: forums.musicbrainz.org/viewtopic.php?pid=23765 Clarifies which creditings should be

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Featured artists clarification

2013-12-13 Thread Ross Tyler
Thanks for championing this cause. Improvement here is long overdue. As I mentioned in RFC, I believe the best improvement would be to scrap this guidance altogether. I understand, however, that that is beyond what you are trying to do - which is to keep the accepted guidance but make it

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Featured artists clarification

2013-12-13 Thread Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Ross Tyler rossety...@gmail.com wrote: However, if our rationale for this normalization is to make such MB taggers happy, why is it being limited to just English? It seems to me the same rationale should apply equally to all languages. Shouldn't we want to

Re: [mb-style] RFV: Featured artists clarification

2013-12-13 Thread Ross Tyler
On 12/13/2013 08:38 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2013 at 6:29 PM, Ross Tyler rossety...@gmail.com mailto:rossety...@gmail.com wrote: However, if our rationale for this normalization is to make such MB taggers happy, why is it being limited to just English?