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  1. MusicBrainz Style
  2. STYLE-2557

Clarify examples for sort name guideline "Name begins with an abbreviated title"

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      Affected guideline: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Artist/Sort_Name

      For a long time as an editor, I never clicked on the "DJ Shah" example and misinterpreted it as indicating that "DJ Firstname" should be sorted as "Firstname, DJ" (probably because I look at the examples much more frequently than at the guideline itself).

      Only after clicking on the artist and re-reading the guideline more closely, I realised that it actually says the contrary. I believe I'm not the only editor misled by this, considering that the sort name button produces the result "Firstname, DJ" too. A quick search seems to confirm my impression (it's even worse than I thought, actually).

      A simple improvement would be to add a new "DJ Firstname" example at the start of the section, to hopefully get editors to notice the difference.

      Two related improvements - I can create separate tickets and link them here, but first I'd like to hear if there are good reasons against them:

      • Bring sort name guidelines and examples closer to each other, as already done e.g. here.
      • Stop assuming that DJ is followed by a last name (or, perhaps more likely, that DJ is a first name) in the guess sort name code.

            reosarevok Nicolás Tamargo
            salo.rock salo.rock
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