References of previous discussion:
community/forums/topics/763785
This proposal is to remove the guideline in General RC of Metadata:
Tracks created by artists belonging to doujin circles should list the circle's name as the main artist. The exception to this is when the artist(s) of a given track is well-known enough by their own name. In this case, the specific artist name(s) may be used instead.
I understand this rule (from the previous discussion linked above) is saying that, the priority of choosing target to credit for the music is:
Famous composer/vocalists>Circle>not famous composer/vocalists
This rule is firstly,
Misleading to players, ‘artist’ should be clearly directing people to the creator of the music. For musics done by individual composer but not a collab of the circle should write the composer’s name instead, no matter how famous they’re.
secondly,
Missing credit to the original composer, they’re worth getting the same credit even if they are not well-known.
thirdly,
How can we decide whether the composer is well-known/more well-known than the circle name?
lastly,
we should ‘modify metadata from primary sources except to comply with formatting and standardisation rules below.’ Since it’s a guideline not rule after all, the primary sources is still on top priority. However that’s not the case for many ranked maps
For example:
(beatmapsets/1078388#mania/2256446 writes ‘dat file records’ as artist instead of ‘u_ Key’ even when the official website https://datfilethcme.tumblr.com is actually crediting ‘u_Key’)
(beatmapsets/785871#mania/1649858 writes ‘Alstroemeria Records’ as artist instead of ‘ayame’ even when the official website http://alst.net/arcd0064/ crediting ‘ayame’)
and they’re misleading people.
Therefore using the circle name as the artist name is not encouraged at all imo.
Even it’s not forced as a guideline, RC shouldn’t be encouraging people doing this.
I personally felt sad for people not knowing the original composer since the artist name only tells them the circle name, especially for those who’re not famous but producing great musics for us.
Open for discussion for any suggestion and sorry for my bad English. It’s my first time requesting a proposal for RC change so if I made any format mistakes please tell me, I will correct it once I realised.
community/forums/topics/763785
This proposal is to remove the guideline in General RC of Metadata:
Tracks created by artists belonging to doujin circles should list the circle's name as the main artist. The exception to this is when the artist(s) of a given track is well-known enough by their own name. In this case, the specific artist name(s) may be used instead.
I understand this rule (from the previous discussion linked above) is saying that, the priority of choosing target to credit for the music is:
Famous composer/vocalists>Circle>not famous composer/vocalists
This rule is firstly,
Misleading to players, ‘artist’ should be clearly directing people to the creator of the music. For musics done by individual composer but not a collab of the circle should write the composer’s name instead, no matter how famous they’re.
secondly,
Missing credit to the original composer, they’re worth getting the same credit even if they are not well-known.
thirdly,
How can we decide whether the composer is well-known/more well-known than the circle name?
lastly,
we should ‘modify metadata from primary sources except to comply with formatting and standardisation rules below.’ Since it’s a guideline not rule after all, the primary sources is still on top priority. However that’s not the case for many ranked maps
For example:
(beatmapsets/1078388#mania/2256446 writes ‘dat file records’ as artist instead of ‘u_ Key’ even when the official website https://datfilethcme.tumblr.com is actually crediting ‘u_Key’)
(beatmapsets/785871#mania/1649858 writes ‘Alstroemeria Records’ as artist instead of ‘ayame’ even when the official website http://alst.net/arcd0064/ crediting ‘ayame’)
and they’re misleading people.
Therefore using the circle name as the artist name is not encouraged at all imo.
Even it’s not forced as a guideline, RC shouldn’t be encouraging people doing this.
Open for discussion for any suggestion and sorry for my bad English. It’s my first time requesting a proposal for RC change so if I made any format mistakes please tell me, I will correct it once I realised.