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[[wikipedia:Abbreviation|Abbreviation]] is strictly a shortening, but more particularly, an abbreviation is a letter or group of letters, taken from a word or words, and employed to represent them for the sake of brevity. |
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Abbreviations should generally be expanded, particularly in [[Style/Recording and release group titles/Extra title information|Extra Title Information]]. The main exceptions are |
Abbreviations should generally be expanded, particularly in [[Style/Recording and release group titles/Extra title information|Extra Title Information]]. The main exceptions are “feat.” for “featuring” when describing additional artists (see [[Style/Recording and release group titles/Featured artists|featured artists]]), and “vs.” for “versus” which is a type of artist collaboration. |
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Acronyms such as |
Acronyms such as “OST” should not be expanded. |
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As usual, [[Style/Principle/Artist intent|artist intent]] may override this guideline (see the [[Style/Principle|style principles]]). |
As usual, [[Style/Principle/Artist intent|artist intent]] may override this guideline (see the [[Style/Principle|style principles]]). |
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==Rationale== |
==Rationale== |
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Abbreviations can be ambiguous, and by that I mean that one single abbreviation can mean several different words when expanded. This issue becomes very important when dealing with |
Abbreviations can be ambiguous, and by that I mean that one single abbreviation can mean several different words when expanded. This issue becomes very important when dealing with multi‐lingual words; for example, the word “Volume” and “Volumen” are both abbreviated to “Vol.” and there is no way to tell which expansion is correct without doing further research. As we intend to support other languages in future, we should make entries as unambiguous as possible for easy manipulation at a later date. |
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Revision as of 20:21, 15 November 2011
Status: This is an official style guideline. |
Abbreviation is strictly a shortening, but more particularly, an abbreviation is a letter or group of letters, taken from a word or words, and employed to represent them for the sake of brevity.
Abbreviations should generally be expanded, particularly in Extra Title Information. The main exceptions are “feat.” for “featuring” when describing additional artists (see featured artists), and “vs.” for “versus” which is a type of artist collaboration.
Acronyms such as “OST” should not be expanded.
As usual, artist intent may override this guideline (see the style principles).
Rationale
Abbreviations can be ambiguous, and by that I mean that one single abbreviation can mean several different words when expanded. This issue becomes very important when dealing with multi‐lingual words; for example, the word “Volume” and “Volumen” are both abbreviated to “Vol.” and there is no way to tell which expansion is correct without doing further research. As we intend to support other languages in future, we should make entries as unambiguous as possible for easy manipulation at a later date.