# Cleaning up DENONBU releases

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cleaning-up-denonbu-releases/557917
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** style
**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 2:37pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cleaning-up-denonbu-releases/557917 "2021-11-03T14:37:49Z")
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### Author: ![yindesu](https://community.metabrainz.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/b77776/32.png) [@yindesu](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/yindesu)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2021, 1:57am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/cleaning-up-denonbu-releases/557917/5 "2021-11-04T01:57:24Z")

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You should use the Japanese comma. Fullwidth punctuation should also be normalized to half-width (without inserting whitespace).

I also think we should standardize Japanese anisong credits without whitespaces, even for Bandai Namco Arts (aka Lantis) who is currently standardizing around extra whitespaces. However, a number of editors insist on inserting whitespace even when there is clearly none.

I wrote a pair of taggerscripts to encourage people to focus on standardizing their own files rather than wasting time editing things back and forth in the server:

> [@Taggerscript: Standardize Japanese CV artist credit whitespace and punctuation](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/taggerscript-standardize-japanese-cv-artist-credit-whitespace-and-punctuation/556927):
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> Japanese websites tend to present CV artist credits without any whitespace between: the character and the opening parentheses CV and the seiyuu comma and the next character Some editors standardize to this more common syntax. Other editors insist on inserting whitespace. Since we can’t agree, here are 2 taggerscripts (“A” and “B”) to standardize your personal library. "A" - Remove extraneous whitespace: $foreach(albumartist; artist, $if($rsearch($get(%\_loop\_value%),[（\\\(][CcＣｃ][\\.．]{0…

It would be nice if people could spend time adding (new) useful data rather than engaging in a tug-of-war over formatting of old standardized data.

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