Proposal:Remove banned characters: Difference between revisions
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;Primes: Use single prime (′), double-prime (″), and triple-prime (‴) where appropriate. Single prime indicates minutes and feet; double-prime indicates seconds and inches. Triple-prime is rarely used. |
;Primes: Use single prime (′), double-prime (″), and triple-prime (‴) where appropriate. Single prime indicates minutes and feet; double-prime indicates seconds and inches. Triple-prime is rarely used. |
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;Ellipsis: Use the ellipsis character (…) instead of three periods (...), unless you cannot easily enter the preferred character. |
;Ellipsis: Use the ellipsis character (…) instead of three periods (...), unless you cannot easily enter the preferred character. |
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;Dashes, hyphens, and minus signs: Use the appropriate hyphen (‐), minus sign (−), em dash (—), en dash (–), or other dash as |
;Dashes, hyphens, and minus signs: Use the appropriate hyphen (‐), minus sign (−), em dash (—), en dash (–), or other dash as it appears on the release. If you can’t easily enter these characters, or can’t determine which is correct, use - (hyphen-minus) for en dash, hyphen, and minus; and -- for em dash and quotation dash. Other editors should correct these where possible, unless it is clear that the release actually uses a doubled generic typewriter-dash. Be careful when making these corrections, as the rules vary for different languages. |
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=="Top something" Playlists== |
=="Top something" Playlists== |
Revision as of 21:15, 17 November 2010
Status: This page describes an active style guideline proposal and is not official. |
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This proposal updates Miscellaneous Guideline to the following:
Use of special characters
The use of certain special characters is preferred:
- Apostrophe
- A true apostrophe (’) is preferred in place of a typewriter apostrophe ('). Use ' only if it is clearly as it appears on the release, or if you can’t easily enter the preferred character.
- Quotation marks
- Use the mark that appears on the release. Use " only if it is clearly as it appears on the release, or if you can’t easily enter the preferred characters. Other common variations include:
- single quotes
- ‘ and ’
- guillemets
- « » and ‹ › (note difference from < and >)
- low quotes
- „ and ‚ (note difference from comma: ,)
- Primes
- Use single prime (′), double-prime (″), and triple-prime (‴) where appropriate. Single prime indicates minutes and feet; double-prime indicates seconds and inches. Triple-prime is rarely used.
- Ellipsis
- Use the ellipsis character (…) instead of three periods (...), unless you cannot easily enter the preferred character.
- Dashes, hyphens, and minus signs
- Use the appropriate hyphen (‐), minus sign (−), em dash (—), en dash (–), or other dash as it appears on the release. If you can’t easily enter these characters, or can’t determine which is correct, use - (hyphen-minus) for en dash, hyphen, and minus; and -- for em dash and quotation dash. Other editors should correct these where possible, unless it is clear that the release actually uses a doubled generic typewriter-dash. Be careful when making these corrections, as the rules vary for different languages.
"Top something" Playlists
Bootleg torrents that are compilations based on playlists of charts authorities (like Billboard's) should not be stored in MusicBrainz as releases. These playlists are often copyrighted by their issuers.
Other Do-Not's
There's some guiding information available What Not To Link To. It is not an Official Style Guideline, but is information that should help while editing.