Re: [mb-users] Should catalog numbers be capitalised?

Alex Mauer <[email protected]> Sun, 21 Sep 2014 20:21:53 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.musicbrainz.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 9/21/2014 12:56 PM, Ian McEwen wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 12:29:41PM -0500, Alex Mauer wrote:
>> On 9/18/2014 10:38 AM, caller#6 wrote:
>>> On 09/17/2014 03:48 PM, lixobix wrote:
>>>> Should catalog numbers be capitalised, or should they be entered as shown?
>>>
>>> Where possible, I'd prefer to use the form that the label uses in
>>> printed catalogs or on web pages over the form used on an individual
>>> release (assuming there's a difference).
>>
>> It seems completely wrong to me to use a source other than the release
>> for this information. MB is about the releases, not about some website
>> or printed catalog.
>>
>
> MusicBrainz is about neither,

OK, fair enough; MusicBrainz *release entities* are about the releases 
though, IMO. For an entity that represented the catalog itself or the 
label, it's appropriate to normalize; but not for the release.