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has deciding which language to use for a bootleg release become much of
an issue on MB yet?
i know that i previously said that the information should be the same as
on the ticket of the event.. but now I'm starting to feel that we
shouldn't have a
Steve Wyles wrote:
I know you're a big advocate of Wikipedia. But, being
technically dependant on another data repository for this isn't
practical. I sorry to say that Wikipedia has had more downtime
or been inaccessible more often than MusicBrainz.
Back when this was at its worst, in
Cristov Russell wrote:
If an Italian artist performs in Spain they obviously have Spanish
fans so why should a recording by a Spanish, French or English fan
arbitrarly use the language of the performer?
But I think we both agree that we should use the language the
fans would expect,
: [mb-style] Bootleg locations
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 02:33:34 -0400
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has deciding which language to use for a bootleg release become much of
an issue on MB yet?
i know that i previously said that the information should be the same as
on the ticket
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:06:08AM +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote:
1. use the same placenames already used for other bootleg
recordings (I can give you a list, based on the database dump)
Er, this is exactly the point. We're using two names for the same place and
I asked which we should use.
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 10:49:39PM +0200, derGraph wrote:
I wonder where to draw the line. We should definitely not include all
subnational states, but only for larger states. But should it be limited
to USA and Canada? What about e.g. Russia and China?
There is no line and I'm not drawing
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 04:31:57PM -0500, Orion wrote:
In large part it's from the bootlegs being of English artists performing
in countries that aren't predominantly English.
Agreed there.
Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan feels odd for some reason
It sounds fine to me in English, but I don't know
dj empirical wrote:
i think that with bootlegs, what the artist does often has no bearing
on anything! :)
Eh ... of course not!
But that's not the point! However, an artist performing in Italian
exclusively will most likely have most fans in Italy, and almost all
fans would rather like to
On 25/04/06, Nikki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would definitely prefer the local name, not only because this is the
official name, and we prefer official data almost everywhere. We might
still add the English name in an annotation.
Yet we use the English name of the country. I think we
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:46:23PM +0100, Chris Bransden wrote:
IMO it should be at the moderators discretion. it's what's useful to
the users that is most important. since it's a free-text field
(album/track title), there's no reason to unify the data. If a french
user adds french language
On 25/04/06, Nikki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 10:46:23PM +0100, Chris Bransden wrote:
IMO it should be at the moderators discretion. it's what's useful to
the users that is most important. since it's a free-text field
(album/track title), there's no reason to unify the
Bogdan Butnaru wrote:
That being said, I think we should insist on using a single language
everywhere (English seems the best choice), because when we make the
database smarter (and perhaps the location and date of bootlegs will
be a field) it'll be much easier to make an automatic conversion.
Adam Golding wrote:
On 4/23/06, derGraph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nikki wrote:
Should UK countries be included?
I wonder where to draw the line. We should definitely not
include all subnational states, but only for larger states.
But should it be limited to USA and Canada? What
dj empirical wrote:
i think that with bootlegs, what the artist does often has
no bearing
on anything! :)
Eh ... of course not!
But that's not the point! However, an artist performing in
Italian exclusively will most likely have most fans in Italy,
and almost all fans would
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:52:41PM +0200, Jan van Thiel wrote:
Holland is definitely wrong. I usually use 'The Netherlands' and probably
am responsible for renaming most titles ;) I think 'The' should be
included, to indicate it's plural and because I like it better.
I do think the Netherlands
I'd go with Netherlands.
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Subject: Re: [mb-style] Bootleg locations
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 23:42:13 +0100
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:52:41PM +0200, Jan
On 4/23/06, Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think 'The'
should be included, to indicate it's plural and because I
like it better.
Ummm the 's' makes it plural not The. :-)
True :) Anyway, I've decided I really don't care what we decide to
use, as long as it's consistent.
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I vote for simple Netherlands, since that seems to be official.
On 4/25/06, Jan van Thiel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 4/23/06, Cristov Russell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I think 'The'
should be included, to indicate it's plural and because I
like it better.
Ummm the 's' makes it plural
On 4/22/06, Nikki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was curious about the distribution of countries for bootlegs [1] and I
noticed that the untitled bootleg style [2] doesn't really consist of much
and live bootleg style [3] still doesn't expand the location very much. A
general style appears to have
I think 'The'
should be included, to indicate it's plural and because I
like it better.
zout (from the Netherlands)
--
Jan van Thiel
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Ummm the 's' makes it plural not The. :-)
Cristov (wolfsong)
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Nikki wrote:
Should UK countries be included?
I wonder where to draw the line. We should definitely not include all
subnational states, but only for larger states. But should it be limited
to USA and Canada? What about e.g. Russia and China?
Should we use the local or English form of
great email
Nikki wrote:
Hi,
I was curious about the distribution of countries for bootlegs [1] and I
noticed that the untitled bootleg style [2] doesn't really consist of much
and live bootleg style [3] still doesn't expand the location very much. A
general style appears to have emerged
Nikki wrote:
I was curious about the distribution of countries for bootlegs
[1] and I noticed [...] we should be a bit more consistent. :)
Very interesting statistics, but is it really realistic to impose
stricter rules for how users should name things? Aren't computers
a lot better at
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 01:16:20AM +0200, Lars Aronsson wrote:
Very interesting statistics, but is it really realistic to impose
stricter rules for how users should name things?
They're not rules, they're guidelines. I also know I'm not the only person
who has wondered whether to write UK,
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