Updating french guidelines

ulugabi · January 20, 2021, 6:36am

Hello,

Could we have an update with more examples?
cf https://musicbrainz.org/edit/76532731

I can help to write/update if needed

And wikipedia for reference https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_des_majuscules_en_français#Titres_d’œuvres_ou_de_périodiques

Thanks

Lotheric · January 20, 2021, 3:19am

Useful link on french capitalization I found: https://roberge.mus.ulaval.ca/gdrm/03-majus.htm#titres-francais

yvanzo · January 20, 2021, 6:50am

Salut,

Here is the most useful link: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Language/French
For the record, the current revision of this page is 72317.

If this is just about replacing examples: Many musical works can be found on MusicBrainz: https://musicbrainz.org/search?query=lang:fra&type=work&limit=100&method=advanced

ulugabi · February 2, 2021, 5:24am

@chabreyflint

Hello,

Updated the rules but only to add “qualificatif” which was missing in detailed rules that made me made many wrong edits (fixed now). Also added example for “et” in exception C

Regarding cases like “Le Bon, la brute et le truand” it remains discutable as

Wikipedia is neither a perfect reference, ex: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huit_Femmes_(film) Huit is not a qualificatif adjectif and so it should be “femmes”
Rules speaks about 2 words, not multiple ones

Anyway for those 2 exceptions even the academy rules are not clear https://www.dictionnaire-academie.fr/article/QDL047