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      • kepstin
        hmm. maybe I'll make redoing the ARs on ROUND TABLE featuring Nino my project for tomorrow.
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      • kepstin
        drop all the round table members, and turn it into a collaboration artist with round table + nino
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      • nikki
        makes sense
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      • kepstin
        hmm. I've been seeing a "Sound Produced" credit a lot lately
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      • kepstin
        appears to be distinct from just "Producer" :/
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      • kepstin
        and "Director", "Vocal Director" as well
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      • nikki
        I've seen sound producer quite a lot
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      • nikki
        I just skip over it ¬_¬
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      • nikki
        hm. I never did work out how turn these rtf files into html. it turns out it's some bizarre encoding
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      • kepstin
        on the anime-related singles, the 'sound producer' is often more relevant to the music than the 'producer'
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      • kepstin
        you'll get an executive producer who is someone high up in the company, a producer who is actually the anime producer and is just supervising the music, and the sound producer who actually produced... the sound.
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      • kepstin
        the 'Director'/'Directed by' credit is the one that I'm really not sure how to fit into musicbrainz
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      • kepstin
        'Provided creative direction for' doesn't quite seem right :)
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      • kepstin
        btw, nikki, do you ever sleep?
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      • nikki
        hehehe
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      • nikki
        rumour has it that I don't :P
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      • kepstin
        It is depressingly grey and rainy here for a Canadian winter. It's supposed to be white and snowy. Why isn't it white and snowy...
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      • kepstin heads off
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      • nikki
        it's dark here
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      • nikki
        but there was still the snow from the other day
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      • herojoker
        here too
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      • kepstin
        we had some snow, but the rain came and washed it all away...
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      • kepstin
        it's freakin' 10°C here now
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      • nikki
        aww
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      • nikki wonders where herojoker actually is
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      • herojoker
        germany ^^
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      • nikki
        I knew that much! :P
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      • nikki
        germany's big though! (well, maybe not to kepstin, but to me)
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      • kepstin
        Germany's tiny!
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      • hawke_
        Germany’s of a medium size. :-p
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      • nikki
        still got more people than canada :P
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      • kepstin
        Canada's just absolutely massive. If you want to drive from one end to the other, you set aside a week for the trip, then another week for the trip back...
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      • nikki
        hehe...
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      • nikki
        and I can get back to my mum's in half a day
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      • nikki
        well, more like a full day... the trains don't go overnight
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      • kepstin has been to Germany once, but that was when he was quite a bit younger.
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      • nikki
        where did you go?
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      • kepstin
        Was a bus tour around the country
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      • nikki
        ahh
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      • nikki
        I want to go to every capital in europe, but I wonder what I should count as "going to"
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      • nikki
        although I suppose I should visit more before I worry about that... right now even with my most liberal definition of "going to", I've only been to 5
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      • hawke_
        Hrm…anybody have any idea how this song should be credited: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_the_Father's_…
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      • hawke_
        “lyrics were written by aurelius prudentius” seems wrong, because it likely wouldn’t be sung that way on a recording.
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      • kepstin
        we have a translated lyrics AR now :)
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      • hawke_
        I know, but is it "lyrics by aurelius", translated lyrics by [whichever artist]?
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      • kepstin
        yeah, that sounds about right.
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      • hawke_
        basically, would a "lyrics by" be appropriate when the song doesn't actually contain those lyrics
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      • hawke_
        ?
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      • kepstin
        well, the song contains a translation of those lyrics, right?
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      • kepstin
        so the... original spirit of the lyric writer got passed on :)
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      • kepstin is currently slightly short on sleep, leading to overly wordy and not particularly coherent sentences - off to rectify the situation!
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      • kepstin
        but yeah, for that I'd say lyrics by Aurelius Prudentius, translated lyrics by Foby Furley Davis (or whomever)
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      • hawke_
        OK. And the tune…anonymous? Unknown? Traditional?
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      • hawke_
        published in 1582, but almost certainly not written then.
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      • hawke_
        I suppose that would be best as anonymous.
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      • hawke_
        God damn it, who decided that the year 348 is invalid‽
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      • ocharles
        Could someone give me a "bad" archive.org url? One that would be changed by the url editing javascript
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      • ocharles
        hawke_: it isn't in ngs :)
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      • ocharles
        -300 is valid then!
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      • hawke_
        ocharles: Good.
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      • hawke_
        Hrm…What about the fact that the composed tune has a name separate from the track? So it’s not really correct to say “[anonymous] composed ‘Of Thy Father’s Love Begotten’” since the tune is called either “De Eucharistia” or “Divinum Mysterium”. Presumably something to be left for NGS, but I’m not even sure that NGS handles it properly.
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      • hawke_
        is there a [work] takes its tune from [work] AR, in NGS?
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      • caller_6
        hawke: yeah, I've been wondering about the use of "composed by" for anon/trad melodies... it seems to /formal/. Maybe a "melody based on" track-track AR is in order?
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      • hawke_
        caller_6: Perhaps, though track-track wouldn’t work here.
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      • caller_6
        well, right, work-work eventually.
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      • hawke_
        It’d have to be work-work or work-track, I think, and thus only doable with NGS.
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      • hawke_
        Just because there is no specific recording which represents the tune.
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      • caller_6
        "composed" doesn't seem /fuzzy/ enough for some things.
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      • hawke_
        No?
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      • hawke_
        I think composed is fine.
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      • hawke_
        For this anyway.
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      • caller_6
        as usual, I was thinking while typing (should do the thinking first). What I meant was, maybe a "melody" AR could replace "composed by" in cases like this.
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      • hawke_
        Ah.
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      • nikki
        ocharles: does it do anything other than remove http?
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      • nikki
        hawke_: there aren't really any new relationships in ngs, other than the one to link recordings to works
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      • nikki
        hawke_: but feel free to start drafting some you think would be useful
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      • hawke_
        nikki: So there are no work-work ARs in the works yet?
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      • hawke_
        “in the works” so to speak. :-D
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      • hawke_
        warp, nikki, brianfreud: Can you take a look at http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Hawke/Misc_Guide… and opine on whether it’s a step forward, or back for the proposed removal of banned characters?
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      • brianfreud
        sure - heading to dinner, but will look when i'm back
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      • hawke_
        k.
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      • ocharles
        not so sure about "--" but happy about the rest
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      • hawke_
        Why’s that?
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      • hawke_
        -- is a fairly standard "typewriter convention"
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      • hawke_
        for situations where you want — but can’t type it.
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      • hawke_
        Glad you like it though.
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      • hawke_
        ocharles: And do you think it’s any better (or worse) than http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Proposal:Remove_banne… ?
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      • brianfreud
        hawke_: "...or other dash as it appears on the release" - I doubt most people could actually ID the difference. Plus, that would mean that artistic design decisions on typography end up overriding grammatical correctness. I'd much rather it be "...or other dash as is grammatically correct" or something like that.
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      • brianfreud
        Also, I've been busy, so haven't followed the debate very closely. This, though, doesn't make much sense to me, as someone who hasn't read that thread in detail. "There are certain “generic” characters and combinations which are no longer in the preferred style."
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      • brianfreud
        Last comment, I promise. :) Something not in here, but maybe that should be, would be "number" styles.
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      • brianfreud
        ie, "No." vs "Nr.", "#", "Number", "N°, "№", "n.", etc.
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      • brianfreud
        Oh, I lied. (Just looking over my notes for this stuff from CSGv2). Two other "punctuation" marks maybe worth a mention: 1) "º" (masculine ordinal) vs "°" (degree) , and
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      • brianfreud
        2) Unicode compatibility characters - ie, not using them: "I" "II", etc., not Unicode Roman numbers / Angstrom (Å U+212B: use U+00C5 instead), Ohm (Ω, U+2126: use U+03A9 instead), Kelvin (K U+212A: use U+004B instead) Fahrenheit (℉ U+2109: use U+00B0 and U+0046 instead), Celsius (℃ U+2103: use U+00B0 and U+0043 instead), Micro Sign (µ U+00B5: use U+03BC instead, etc)
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      • caller_6
        At what point (sorry to even ask) does "This page is for small guidelines that don't need their own wiki page." stop applying? It seems like this is growing into its own subject. Typographical Standard English, or whatever.
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      • brianfreud
        true, it does now seem more like "Typography Style Guideline" rather than "Misc Guidelines"
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      • caller_6
        Which is great. I'd think removing the prohibitions contained in "misc" and using the work Hawke is doing as the basis for a TSG (!) makes more sense in terms of structuring the documentation.
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      • hawke_
        caller_6: That seems like a decent idea to me
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      • hawke_
        brianfreud: for the “other dashes”, I mostly wanted to make it clear that it’s not an exhaustive list of all possible dash and similar characters.
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      • brianfreud
        sure, but I don't think that current language says anything towards that. It reads like it's talking about "what's on the liner", not "or other appropriate dash type"
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      • hawke_
        brianfreud: Ah, so you’re saying “get rid of ‘…as it appears on the release.’”
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      • brianfreud
        yeah - that just introduces that who "what's on the liner" concept
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      • caller_6
        about dashes, I read it that way too. It sounds like the presentational concerns over-ride the semantic role.
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      • hawke_
        brianfreud: OK, removed. That was another vestige of my bias towards following the cover art.
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      • brianfreud
        :P
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      • hawke_
        As I said on the list, I hate how you can’t call ArtistIntent without documents signed in triplicate from the artist saying that they want it that way.
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      • hawke_
        But anyway.
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      • brianfreud
        if there's actually some AI reason, I don't have an issue with it. But esp when it comes to the specific type of dash, that maybe is the 1 in a million case - and that lang would just lead to people trying to interpret AI into "graphic designer decisions"
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      • hawke_
        Nod, totally right.
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      • hawke_
        Regarding number (ordinal vs. degree) and other special characters, that’s outside the scope of this proposal which is just to reverse the current misc. guideline on the specific "generic" characters listed
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      • brianfreud
        TBH, though, I think all the focus on mentioning types of punctuation is the wrong directions.
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      • brianfreud
        I'd simplify it down to 4 sentences:
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      • hawke_
        You may well be right. Do tell.
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      • brianfreud
        "ASCII punctuation characters are ok, but grammatically correct typography is preferred. Do not use [[WikiPedia:Unicode_compatibility_characters|Unicode compatibility characters]]; use the decomposed characters instead. Use standard, not wide, Unicode characters. [[WikiPedia:Precomposed_character|Decomposed Unicode characters]] are preferred over [[WikiPedia:Precomposed_character|precomposed Unicode chara
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      • brianfreud
        cters]]."
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      • brianfreud
        (Not sure about that last one actually being our preference)
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      • hawke_
        Hmm.
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      • hawke_
        The whole precomposed/decomposed thing seems overly complicated and really outside the scope of this.
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      • brianfreud
        that last sentence perhaps, yes
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      • hawke_
        I’m really just trying to reverse the “don’t use any quote-like characters except " and ', and don’t use …” that we have now.
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      • brianfreud
        but as for Fahrenheit, Celcius, Roman numbers, Angstrom, Degree, etc, I think that's specifically what this ought to be including.