Vivian Fine Four Songs

[rhymesandchymes]

Hi there,

On my mother Vivian Fine's page, Four Songs is under S. This happened because initially your system changed the title from Four Songs to 4 Songs. At my request you restored the correct title but the work remained under S. Could you move it to F? Many thanks!

[KGill]

Hm, actually according to our style guide it really should be '4 Songs'. It is currently sorted correctly under S because it is not particularly useful to sort under the F in 'Four' if what you are really looking for is something called 'Songs'. This is the universal practice, accepted policy, and technical reality across the site; I don't see any particular reason to make an exception here or in any other case.

[daphnis]

KGill is correct, and I'll also add that this is the same way we would treat compositions in languages other than English that spell-out Arabic numerals, i.e. "Vier Lieder" becomes "4 Lieder". Without this, alike works get organized ineffectively, and while it may not be a big deal for your mother's category, it is for, say, Strauss, Fauré, etc.