How To Propose New Guidelines

Status: This page is out of date, but is still helpful.

Please read the page on the Style Council for some other practices.

If you think there is a need for a new style guideline, please proceed as follows:

1. If you are unsure whether this has been discussed already, you could ask on the Users Mailing List. Also please search the MusicBrainz Wiki for related places where the issue might have been discussed already.
2. Raise the issue on the Style Mailing List.
3. If people start to pick your proposal up, or if you need to describe it in detail, please create a wiki page for it.
   • Note that article page names for style guidelines should be in the form Foo_Bar_Style.
   • The page should be added to Category:Proposed_Style.
   • List your page on proposed style guideline and describe it in a few words.
   • Important: Intertwingle your page. Link to it from related places in the wiki. If you do not do that, your page is likely to drop out of focus quickly.
   • Try to answer the questions on ChecklistForStyleChanges
4. If consensus is reached, your page will eventually be made official by a member of the StyleCouncil. Don't do this yourself.