Style

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Status: This is an official style guideline.

Getting started

  1. Quickstart
  2. Style principle
    1. Artist intent
  3. Adding a new release
  4. Old style practices

Detailed guidelines

  1. Titles
    1. Abbreviations
    2. Extra title information
    3. Subtitles
    4. Multiple titles
    5. Split releases
    6. Series numbers
      1. Part numbers
      2. Volume numbers
    7. Featured artists
    8. OC ReMix series
    9. Promo Only series
  2. Artist
    1. Artist with multiple names
    2. Sortname
    3. Aliases
  3. Release group
  4. Release
  5. Recording
  6. Label
  7. Relationships
    1. URLs
      1. Cover art whitelist
      2. Lyrics whitelist
      3. Score whitelist
      4. What not to link to
    2. Don't make relationship clusters
  8. Unknown and untitled
    1. Special Purpose Artist
    2. Special Purpose Label
    3. Special Purpose Track Title
  9. Specific types of releases
    1. Opera
    2. Musical Theatre
    3. Live bootlegs
  10. Miscellaneous

Language specific guidelines

  1. Overview
    1. English guidelines
    2. guidelines for transliterations
    3. Catalan
    4. Chinese
    5. Czech
    6. Danish
    7. Dutch and Frisian
    8. Estonian
    9. Finnish
    10. French
    11. German
    12. Greek
    13. Hebrew
    14. Hungarian
    15. Italian
    16. Latin
    17. Latvian
    18. Lithuanian
    19. Norwegian
    20. Polish
    21. Portuguese
    22. Romanian
    23. Russian
    24. Slovak
    25. Spanish
    26. Swedish (proposed)
    27. Turkish
    28. Vietnamese
    29. Yiddish


Style
Overview Style Principle · Error correction & Artist intent · Old and/or outdated style practices · Forums · How to propose style changes
Title Style Titles · OC ReMix series
Entities Artist (Sort name) · Release Group · Release · Recording · Work · Series · Place · Event · Aliases · Artist credits
Relationships Relationships · URLs (Lyrics Whitelist)
Classical Classical portal · Release title · Release artist · Track titles · Track artist · Recording artist · Works
Special Cases/Misc. Unknown and untitled entities (Special Purpose Artist, Special Purpose Label, Special Purpose Track Title) · Specific types of releases (Pseudo-Releases, Soundtracks, Theatre, Live bootleg, Broadcast, Audiobooks, Remixes and mashups) · Miscellaneous
Languages English (Classical) · Catalan · Chinese · Czech · Danish · Dutch and Frisian · Estonian (Classical) · Finnish · French · German · Greek · Hebrew · Hungarian · Italian · Japanese · Latin · Latvian · Lithuanian · Norwegian · Polish · Portuguese · Romanian · Russian · Slovak · Spanish (Classical) · Swedish · Turkish · Vietnamese · Yiddish · Transliterations
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