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Improvement
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Resolution: Unresolved
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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.