Re: [mb-style] Fwd: [mb-users] Cyrrilic

> Don Redman wrote:
>
>> Can you explain this? What is the condition these artists fulfill,
>> andhow  should they be handled? how should the conditions be rephrased
>> so that the  result is what you expect?
>>
>> What about this:
>>
>> IF
>>  more than 50% of an artist releases in MB are in their native script
>>  (i.e. Albumtitle and TrackTitle)
>> THEN
>>  store the ArtistName in their native script
>> ELSE
>>  store the ArtistName in the common English t13n
>> FI
>>
>>   DonRedman
>
>
> I mean that it's not uncommon for Asian artists to have 90%+ of their
> releases titled in English.  For example, look at the discographies of
> two of the more prolific Japanese artists over the last 10 years:
> http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=10522 and
> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/888994e5-6f53-4f53-bced-b20482aea42a.html 
>  Both are well under your percentage for native script releases.  Same
> thing goes with newer groups:
> http://musicbrainz.org/showartist.html?artistid=252612
>
> Those all have at least a little bit of Japanese, but there are other
> artists not in the database that don't have a single song or album
> titled in Japanese.  That's what I meant by it wouldn't work
>
> As for how to fix it, I don't think it can be fixed if you try to apply
> it to all artists.  I've been thinking about it a lot lately and it
> really feels like we need to start adding scope to guidelines, making
> them only apply to portions of the DB instead of all.  I'll try to
> organize my thoughts about that and make a post later...
>
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