Naming Conventions

These naming conventions are suggested practices to keep things readable and somewhat consistent.

RTL is hard

Mixing Right-to-left and Left-to-Right text is hard. It is more than just putting things on right alignment, it also has to do with the order that characters are entered and where spaces occur.

When to use what characters for Hebrew

It is most readable and predictable to limit the special characters to a dash - or a plus +.
Avoid using ( and ) as they can interfere with RTL reading order.

Version	Name
Song	שיר
Song - Short	שיר - ק
Song (New)	שיר - חדש
Song (New) - Short	שיר - חדש - ק

To accomplish this you always want a space after a name, followed by a dash, another space, then a descriptor. That is:

<space><dash><space><Descriptor>

What about artist names

It is preferable, when searching, to read the name in the order you would say it. Said differently, that is "first name" followed by "last name".

<artist-firstname><space><artist-lastname>

What about two artists

There are at least two cases. When you have two names for unrelated artist contributors, put:

<artist1><space><plus><space><artist2>

When you are looking at a couple that is contributing together you could use:

<artist1-firstname><space><ampersand><artist2-firstname><space><shared-lastname>

Display Names
Orna Datz
Moshe Datz
Orna Datz + Moshe Datz
Orna & Moshe Datz

When to use what characters for English

When dealing with a dance name, adding a "Short" descriptor, adding a dash makes a consistent transition.
If you have another descriptor, add it inside parenthesis.
The result is an easy to read, consistent output in search results.

Name	Version
Something	Original song
Something (New)	New music
Something - Short	Cut version
Something - Short (New)	Cut version, new music

The recommendation for short versions is:

<name><space><dash><space><Descriptor>

For other descriptors, use:

<name><space><open-parenthesis><Descriptor><close-parenthesis>