# \#guidelines

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## [Mountain cave as a 'place' entity](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/mountain-cave-as-a-place-entity/815676)

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**Author:** [@Libra](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Libra)\
**Replies:** 4\
**Last updated:** [September 22, 2026, 8:09am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/mountain-cave-as-a-place-entity/815676 "2026-09-22T08:09:34Z")

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In this release there is a next relationship: We hiked to a mountain cave in Switzerland to sing Skyrim songs. This is our arrangement of the original soundtrack by Jeremy Soule. A mountain cave doesn’t conflict with…

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## [Soundtrack special purpose artist](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/soundtrack-special-purpose-artist/790639)

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**Author:** [@dvirtz](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/dvirtz)\
**Replies:** 3\
**Last updated:** [September 1, 2025, 1:09pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/soundtrack-special-purpose-artist/790639 "2025-09-01T13:09:12Z")

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Hi. Log in - MusicBrainz lists a \[soundtrack\] SPA but no such artist exists (there’s a few more like this). Should I use \[theatre\] - MusicBrainz instead for an unknown soundtrack recording artist or use the release artis…

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## [GL: sort name for artist names with middle name used instead of family name](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/gl-sort-name-for-artist-names-with-middle-name-used-instead-of-family-name/765019)

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**Author:** [@ernstlx](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/ernstlx)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [June 8, 2025, 8:36pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/gl-sort-name-for-artist-names-with-middle-name-used-instead-of-family-name/765019 "2025-06-08T20:36:16Z")

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I found no ticket about this case, but much discussion in the forum. To me, it looks clear and unambiguous what the guidelines say: Person artist names have sort name “family name, given name”. a. Middle names and ni…

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## [Should we allow truncated 'read more at \[link\]' reviews?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/should-we-allow-truncated-read-more-at-link-reviews/691382)

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**Author:** [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol)\
**Replies:** 10\
**Last updated:** [April 20, 2024, 11:58am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/should-we-allow-truncated-read-more-at-link-reviews/691382 "2024-04-20T11:58:09Z")

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Recently a CritiqueBrainz user has been posting truncated reviews, with a ‘read more’ link to a external website containing the full review. There is no reason to believe that this has been done in bad faith (be kind!) b…

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## [LLM/‘AI’ Code of Conduct/Guidelines](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/llm-ai-code-of-conduct-guidelines/643146)

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**Author:** [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol)\
**Replies:** 19\
**Last updated:** [September 4, 2023, 1:13am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/llm-ai-code-of-conduct-guidelines/643146 "2023-09-04T01:13:26Z")

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This topic was raised at the last MetaBrainz meeting, 2023-06-26. This thread will duplicated content from the meeting summary - please keep your discussions on the topic to this thread. Summary This topic will be bro…

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## [Portuguese capitalization](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/portuguese-capitalization/628932)

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**Author:** [@danBLOO](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/danBLOO)\
**Replies:** 25\
**Last updated:** [June 24, 2023, 10:59am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/portuguese-capitalization/628932 "2023-06-24T10:59:44Z")

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not sure if this has been discussed before, but i saw the other day that since 2006 the Wikipedia guidelines for work (films, books, albums, etc.) titles say they should be titile cased, as in English: Nos nomes de ban…
