User:Yurim

User: Yurim

Ressources

• FreeDB Gateway.
• Jazz/Compositions
• Moderator Language (and cadalach is willing to help with Gaelic)
• open edits
• open, has "No" votes
• open, has "Yes" votes
• applied edits in the last 7 days
• my votes in the last 7 days
• new releases for Various Artists

Learned by advice

• No "Nr." (See edit #6262364)
• Parts in the disc title should be separated by slashes. (see edit #6232220)
• Tempi in the track title should be separated by hyphens. (see edit #6232082 and MultipleTitleStyle)
• Use "(feat. <artist>)" when adding artists to the track title except for orchestras. (See edit #6262372)
• Use ″ (U+2033 'DOUBLE PRIME') as the symbol for inch. (See edit #28374999)

Comments (for Copy 'n' Paste)

• moved featured artists from title to artist field (see [Style/Titles/Featured_artists])
• typographically-correct punctuation (see [Style/Miscellaneous].)

• You may want to correct the capitalization (see [Style/Language/English]). The "Guess case" button is your friend. (Well, almost. You have to check afterwards.)
• Use a colon (:) to separate multi‐line parts of a release title (if no other dividing punctuation mark is present). See [Style/Titles/Subtitles].
• [Style/Titles/Volume_numbers] explains how to enter volume numbers. The "Guess case" button is your friend.
• The disambiguation comments are fields in the database used to help distinguish identically named artists, labels and other entities. See [Disambiguation_Comment].
• Please enter as much information as possible. Can you provide a barcode, a label, a catalog number, a scan of the cover, anything that helps other editors to approve your edit?
• The release can be found at amazon, so you can provide a link.
• Please enter extra title information as described in [Style/Titles/Extra_title_information].
• Please follow [Style/Titles/Featured_artists] for featured artists.
• If you have the CD at hand, could you enter the DiscID ([How_to_Add_Disc_IDs])? And while you're at it, you may want to add the fingerprints ([AcoustID]).
• If you want to add additional information like who recorded it, where was it mastered, etc. you may want to use the relationship editor. Click "Edit relationships" on the right side.

• [Style/Titles/Abbreviations]
• [Style/Titles/Multiple_titles]
• [Style/Titles/Subtitles]
• [Style/Titles/Volume_numbers]
• [Style/Titles/Featured_artists]

Notes

• You can use the MusicBrainz ID in the relationship editor
  • Klicking through tons of similar items? Put in the MB-ID (looks like any UUID, e.g. 2520cdaf-6146-3293-b856-5b163e76e1d2).

• You can use (undocumented?) wiki style in comments
  • "[Style/Miscellaneous]" results in Style/Miscellaneous
  • "edit #5582056" results in edit #5582056

• Enter Unicode
  • Linux: <CTRL-SHIFT-u>, <hex-code>, <space>
  • Windows: Press and hold <ALT>, <+> on the numpad, <hex-code>, release <ALT>

• Punctuation:
  • As a general rule, MusicBrainz editors should correct spelling and punctuation. (Style/Principle/Error_correction_and_artist_intent)
  • Use of basic ASCII punctuation characters such as ' and " is allowed, but typographically-correct punctuation is preferred. (Style/Miscellaneous)
  • Picard can convert Unicode punctuation characters in MusicBrainz data to ASCII for consistent use of punctuation in tags. ([1], [2])
  • Japanese artists have a tendency to choose capitalization and punctuation for aesthetic reasons; and to be very consistent regarding case over all releases. For this reason, words in the Latin script on a Japanese release should be in the same case as on the album art if other available sources, such as official discography or record label pages, are consistent; not normalized according to English or other capitalization standards. (Style/Language/Japanese)
  • English quotation marks [3]):
    • ‘…’ (U+2018 'LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' / U+2019 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK')
    • “…” (U+201C 'LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK' / U+201D 'RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK')
  • German quotation marks in Germany ([4]):
    • „…“ (U+201E 'DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK' / U+201C 'LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK')
    • ‚…‘ (U+201A 'SINGLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK' / U+2018 'LEFT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK')
    • »…« (U+00BB 'RIGHT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK' / U+00AB 'LEFT-POINTING DOUBLE ANGLE QUOTATION MARK')
    • ›…‹ (U+203A 'SINGLE RIGHT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK' / U+2039 'SINGLE LEFT-POINTING ANGLE QUOTATION MARK')
  • English apostrophe: ’ (U+2019 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK') ([5])
  • English ellipsis is treated inconsistently ([6]). Some authorities require three dots, some suggest using the prefabricated ellipsis character … (U+2026 'HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS'). The use of spaces before and/or after the ellipsis is also inconsistent.
  • English number signs come in different shapes:
    • # (U+0023 'NUMBER SIGN')
    • ＃ (U+FF03 'FULLWIDTH NUMBER SIGN')
    • ﹟ (U+FE5F 'SMALL NUMBER SIGN').
  • The sharp sign in music notation:
    • ♯ (U+266F 'MUSIC SHARP SIGN')
    • 𝄪 (U+1D12A 'MUSICAL SYMBOL DOUBLE SHARP')
    • 𝄰 (U+1D130 'MUSICAL SYMBOL SHARP UP')
    • 𝄱 (U+1D131 'MUSICAL SYMBOL SHARP DOWN')
    • 𝄲 (U+1D132 'MUSICAL SYMBOL QUARTER TONE SHARP')
  • The numero sign № (U+2116 'NUMERO SIGN').
  • Unit signs: ([7])
    • The prime symbol ′ (U+2032 'PRIME') is commonly used to represent feet (ft), arcminutes (am) and minutes (min).
    • The double prime ″ (U+2033 'DOUBLE PRIME') represents inches (in), arcseconds (as) and seconds (s).
    • µ (U+00B5 'MICRO SIGN')
    • ² (U+00B5 'SUPERSCRIPT TWO')
    • ³ (U+00B5 'SUPERSCRIPT THREE')
  • Please, let's never get started with white space characters. ([8])

Open questions

• How can edits be protected?
  • Sometimes the spelling is special, some annotations are non-trivial. Is there a way to subscribe to releases instead of artists?
  • At that time, there's only two ways to "protect" stuff: (a) write a big fat warning in the release annotation and/or (b) subscribe to the artists, and vote/watch the changes. Now, there's some discussion to address this in DataQuality. -- RobertKaye 2007-02-12
• Will there be more filters and options to search for edits?
  • I'm still missing "order by closing date", "All my open edits that have comments from someone else", "All open edits from other editors that I commented" and "All my open edits that are in conflict with another open edit".

Disclaimer

I think this is a good place to collect open questions and resolved issues. Drop me a line if I'm wrong. I will delete this page then.

• Please don't delete it. It's your page after all ;). Now, maybe this is not the most appropriate place to ask questions, as most people won't notice (errr... well, that leaves you with answers from the "not-most" people :p). There are two good places for fast answers: the users mailing list, and IRC. -- dmppanda 20:54, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
• and the new forum -- JoanW