usage guides aren't totally unanimous on the 3-letter limit iirc
2013-08-11 22339, 2013
Leftmost
That guideline is ambiguous as to whether it's only the prepositions listed, but it's unambiguous as to how to capitalize everything but short prepositions, and defines short prepositions unambiguously as well.
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CallerNo6 concedes that the style guide is unambiguous, but thinks the choice of 3 vs 4( or even 5) for the limit was arbitrary.
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Leftmost
It was. The guideline author says so.
2013-08-11 22309, 2013
CallerNo6
ah. yes. that sounds familiar.
2013-08-11 22354, 2013
Leftmost
I'd actually like to clarify language in that guideline regarding whether the list is exhaustive or not, but I need to feel less like debating on the list will make me smash things.
2013-08-11 22334, 2013
CallerNo6
That's what I like to hear. None of that namby-pamby descriptivist stuff.
2013-08-11 22330, 2013
CallerNo6
Crush your enemies. See them driven before you. Hear the lamentations of their [special friends].
2013-08-11 22346, 2013
derwin
lol
2013-08-11 22356, 2013
Leftmost
Oh, I'm a descriptivist through and through when it comes to language use. But MB isn't about language use. MB is about imposing our worldview on the collection of music data! Forcing the universe to conform to our ideals.
2013-08-11 22310, 2013
Leftmost
We will subjugate reality to our collective will.
2013-08-11 22339, 2013
CallerNo6
That is totally what is best in life.
2013-08-11 22305, 2013
Leftmost
I want to impose this worldview on other media as well. Music isn't enough.
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wild_dagger
hi, is there an webmaster of musicbrainz here ?
2013-08-11 22301, 2013
Leftmost
wild_dagger, you're better off asking your question. Someone will probably be able to answer it.
2013-08-11 22343, 2013
wild_dagger
thank you leftmore, i am sorry to report it this, but i can't register on forum of musicbrainz
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derwin
wild_dagger: what happens when you try?
2013-08-11 22346, 2013
wild_dagger
is it a way to synchronize my account (i am register on dashboard i think
2013-08-11 22310, 2013
wild_dagger
i have a pop up asking me my account (id and password)
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wild_dagger
(sorry for my poor english)
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warp
wild_dagger: read the pop up carefully
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wild_dagger
In order to combat spam registrations, you need to log in to register. Please press your browser's Refresh button, then follow
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wild_dagger
,,
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wild_dagger
??
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wild_dagger
Le site http://forums.musicbrainz.org demande un nom d'utilisateur et un mot de passe. Le site indique : « MusicBrainz Forums Registration - please log in with username 'forums', password 'register' »
he also cancelled an add release edit (out of spite?)
2013-08-11 22352, 2013
reosarevok
Well, he's been downvoted in a huge amount of edits because they were all wrong :p
2013-08-11 22314, 2013
CatQuest
[07:47] <viper6661> those people should be left in an indefinite limited status until they can submit something proper
2013-08-11 22338, 2013
CatQuest
I agree with viper6661 here, a good idea to keep thos in unending limited
2013-08-11 22337, 2013
CatQuest
and "bring back iframe voteing!!" I think remember that reosarevok?
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reosarevok
heh
2013-08-11 22318, 2013
reosarevok
sadly there's no way to do that unless you're going to have like "elections" for normal editor
2013-08-11 22325, 2013
reosarevok
Which sounds like a chore
2013-08-11 22322, 2013
CatQuest
[08:59] * CallerNo6 concedes that the style guide is unambiguous, but thinks the choice of 3 vs 4( or even 5) for the limit was arbitrary.
2013-08-11 22325, 2013
CatQuest agree's
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CatQuest
always i feel that "with" and "from" should be lower case
2013-08-11 22356, 2013
CatQuest
it just *feels* wrong not to
2013-08-11 22359, 2013
CatQuest
i can't explain it
2013-08-11 22318, 2013
CatQuest
if they are capitalized they just popout, like.. discogs releases that haven't been guess cased
2013-08-11 22322, 2013
CatQuest
to me anyway
2013-08-11 22308, 2013
CatQuest
well I'd not say elections, but if the amount of no-voted and rejected edits towards the anounts of yes-voted/accepted (ignoring autoedits) is over a certan threshold. extent the "limited" status with a new two weeks or something
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viper6661
so many [unknown] releases, 30 pages of them... sigh
2013-08-11 22316, 2013
reosarevok
heh
2013-08-11 22325, 2013
reosarevok
Some might need moving to [traditional]
2013-08-11 22329, 2013
reosarevok
Or something like that
2013-08-11 22332, 2013
reosarevok
But yeah
2013-08-11 22317, 2013
viper6661
im sure some of them can be fixed pretty fast as they were probably added out of laziness
2013-08-11 22309, 2013
viper6661
lol some are here because whoever managed to fix them forgot to fix the release group
2013-08-11 22345, 2013
reosarevok
heh, that happens :)
2013-08-11 22352, 2013
reosarevok
At least those are easy to fix
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viper6661
found an unknown album in 10 seconds with google... grrr
