Beltane asked me last night what the accepted format for node titles regarding
classical music is, and if there is one, well, no one’s told me yet.
Assuming there isn’t, then I really think we should come up with one now. Think about all the shit we had to go through to get people to stop
namespacing their song lyrics, and how the gods are still doing title edits on namespaced lyrics. If we don’t do something about it
now, then we’ll still be fixing nodes in two years.
The current system for noding lyrics works great for rock songs. But consider this before you suggest the same for classical music. Take Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Without a consistently enforced standard, imagine all the possible combinations.
Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony
Beethoven’s Symphony # 9
Beethoven’s Symphony number 9
Beethoven’s Symphony 9
Beethoven’s Symphony no. 9
Symphony no. 9 by Beethoven
Symphony no. 9 – Beethoven
Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
Beethoven – Symphony # 9
Ninth Symphony – Beethoven
Symphony no. 9 by Beethoven
….and so on and so on. Imagine if people noded without checking existing writeups and
all of those combinations were the titles of separate nodes.
And also, think about this. If we just use "Ninth Symphony" or whatever, then what about Schubert’s Ninth, another famous classical work. Or Bruckner’s? Or Haydn’s, or Mozart’s or….
My suggestion is –gasp- namespacing, like so: Beethoven: Symphony 9. What does everyone else think?