Sorry if I shouldn't be responding to this (it says [assigned] in the title and I don't know if this is taking more input) but I have a few edits to suggest regarding -
Okoratu wrote:
Updated the wording for the note in Cut Ver to clarify when doing this is okay, and when it isn't:
- Unofficial cut versions of songs must add a
(Cut Ver.)
marker at the end of the current title. If a length marker is already in the title of the track, (Cut Ver.)
would replace it. This is to distinguish unofficial cuts of a song from full length versions. Songs that are shortened in ways that nearly match their official versions, and songs that are a full loop of a looping track will not be considered cut.
- Note: This only applies to songs that can be cut to match official versions in ways that are nearly identical. If the version of the song is noticeably different, the
(Cut Ver.)
marker must be used instead. Covers and remixes do not count.
Added an analogous note to Extended Edit from community/forums/topics/1891796?n=1
- Unofficial extended versions of songs must add an
(Extended Edit)
marker at the end of the current title. If a length marker is already in the title of the track, (Extended Edit)
would replace it. This is to distinguish unofficial extended versions of a song from official extended versions. This does not apply to songs that are extended in ways that match an official version in terms of content, order and length.
- Note: This only applies to songs that can be extended to match official versions in ways that are nearly identical. If the version of the song is noticeably different, the
(Extended Edit)
marker must be used instead.
both changes are part of https://github.com/ppy/osu-wiki/pull/11122
Currently, I feel that this is a little ambiguous to how the recreation edits of unreleased official versions should be named, implying that shorter/longer/otherwise different versions would have the same title as the main official version. I would instead change this to the following (changes in blue)
- Unofficial cut versions of songs must add a
(Cut Ver.)
marker at the end of the current title. If a length marker is already in the title of the track, (Cut Ver.)
would replace it. This is to distinguish unofficial cuts of a song from full length versions. Songs that are shortened in ways that nearly match their official versions, and songs that are a full loop of a looping track will not be considered cut. In this case, the (Short Ver.) marker should be used instead unless the version is featured in a game or television show, where the (Game Ver.) and (TV Size) markers should be used respectively.
- Note: This only applies to songs that can be cut to match official versions in ways that are nearly identical. If the version of the song is noticeably different, the
(Cut Ver.)
marker must be used instead. Covers and remixes do not count.
- Unofficial extended versions of songs must add an
(Extended Edit)
marker at the end of the current title. If a length marker is already in the title of the track, (Extended Edit)
would replace it. This is to distinguish unofficial extended versions of a song from official extended versions. This does not apply to songs that are extended in ways that match an official version in terms of content, order and length. If the extended version of the song is longer than the default publication of the song, the (Long Ver.) marker should be used unless an official marker already exists for the song, in which case that marker should be used instead.
- Note: This only applies to songs that can be extended to match official versions in ways that are nearly identical. If the version of the song is noticeably different, the
(Extended Edit)
marker must be used instead.
The wording may not be perfect but I think adding a guide to which marker to use will lessen the ambiguity of which marker to use in the title and will prevent things like
this and
this with the same title but different versions of the song which are indiscernible through title alone (former is full version, latter is SDVX version.)
As for the "(Long Ver.)" marker, I was inspired by
this song which uses "Long Version" and I think that "(Long Ver.)" looks more official than "(Extended Ver.)"
Also it contrasts with "(Short Ver.)" better lolAlternatively, the title marker can be indicative of where the version is featured. I remember when
this map was originally using a different official version of the song (it was a demo,
here for reference) I think that either a
(Demo Ver.) tag or "
(A2B2 Night of Fire Ver.)" would work in this context (Context: "A2B2 Night of Fire" was the name of the event where this demo was shown.)
Summarizing: If the official unreleased version is from...
- a TV Show or Anime -> Use (TV Ver.)
- a Movie -> Use (Movie Ver.)
- a concert or live event -> Use either (Concert Ver.) or (Live Ver.) or a marker denoting the name of the event or concert where the version is from (like the A2B2 reference above.)
- a demo version -> Use (Demo) or (Demo Ver.)
Hopefully this all makes sense, basically add more to the criteria to explicitly define what tags should be used on official unreleased versions of songs depending on their length compared to the released version or where that version is from. I'm mainly suggesting this because otherwise the different versions will appear identical on the site and in clients and with markers, it's easier to differentiate between the different versions of songs.