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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.
=Style for Abbreviations=


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.
[[WikiPedia:Abbreviation|Abbreviation]] - (from Latin brevis "short") 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


Acronyms such as “OST” should not be expanded.
Abbreviations should generally be expanded, particularly in [[Extra Title Information Style|ExtraTitleInformation]]. The main exceptions are "feat." for "featuring" when describing additional artists (see [[Featuring Artist Style|FeaturingArtistStyle]]), and "vs." for "versus" which is a type of artist collaboration (see [[Versus Style|VersusStyle]]).


As usual, [[Style/Principle/Artist intent|artist intent]] may override this guideline (see the [[Style/Principle|style principles]]).
Acronyms such as "OST" should not be expanded.

As usual, [[Artist Intent|ArtistIntent]] may override this guideline (see [[Style Principle|StylePrinciple]]).
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">This is an [[Official Style Guideline|OfficialStyleGuideline]].
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==Rationale==
==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.
Abbreviations can be ambiguous, and by that we 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.

==Discussion==

Should this be edited to be a list of language specific abbreviation styles per language similar to [[Capitalization Standard|CapitalizationStandard]] with AbbreviationStyleEnglish, AbbreviationStyleGerman, AbbreviationStyleJapanese, etc entries placed under it? After reading the rationale for why they should be expanded it doesn't seem to take into account the degree of abbreviation usage in different cultures. Specifically with Japanese the language tends to abbreviate things heavily; often this is done to the point where most people aren't aware of the full expansion of the abbreviated word or phrase and only know the shortened form. Expanding them would feel "odd."

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I would like to see some consensus on whether to expend '''alt.''' to ''alternate'' or ''alternative'' when there's no clear indication / information given by the artist what it should be. -- [[User:Shepard|Shepard]] 14:00, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
<ul><li style="list-style-type:none">IMO all/most jazz moderators prefer "alternate" and I've seen (and done myself) quite a few edits according to that -- [[User:dmppanda|dmppanda]] 18:22, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
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[[Category:To Be Reviewed]] [[Category:Style]] [[Category:Official Style]]

Latest revision as of 23:26, 1 May 2015

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 we 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.