Re: Uploading scores to IMSLP-US and adding links on IMSLP.O
Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 12:48 am
@Eric, @Carolus,
The FTE template currently in use for PD-US-only scores marks every score (file) with the category {{FilePD-USonly}}. This makes it possible to browse all PD-US-only scores (cf. http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:FilePD-USonly). True, the use of this category is redundant when the work itself is PD-US-only. But its automatic use (by inclusion in the FTE template http://imslp.org/wiki/MediaWiki:FTE:server-us) guarantees that all PD-US-only scores will be marked as such even for works the user forgets to mark as PD-US-only. This guarantee is far more important than any consideration about supposed redundancy.
For a work to be marked PD-US-only, the user must himself or herself add the category {{WorkPD-USonly}} in the markup on the work's page. The markup generator does not insert this category automatically because, as Carolus explained, a work that has a PD-US-only score possibly may not be a PD-US-only work.
Jonathan
The FTE template currently in use for PD-US-only scores marks every score (file) with the category {{FilePD-USonly}}. This makes it possible to browse all PD-US-only scores (cf. http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:FilePD-USonly). True, the use of this category is redundant when the work itself is PD-US-only. But its automatic use (by inclusion in the FTE template http://imslp.org/wiki/MediaWiki:FTE:server-us) guarantees that all PD-US-only scores will be marked as such even for works the user forgets to mark as PD-US-only. This guarantee is far more important than any consideration about supposed redundancy.
For a work to be marked PD-US-only, the user must himself or herself add the category {{WorkPD-USonly}} in the markup on the work's page. The markup generator does not insert this category automatically because, as Carolus explained, a work that has a PD-US-only score possibly may not be a PD-US-only work.
Jonathan