On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 20:46 +0200, Aurélien Mino wrote: > On 06/14/2011 01:19 PM, Calvin Walton wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 10:29 -0400, Calvin Walton wrote: > >> This proposal is to add or change two ARs: > >> > >> * Official Homepage > >> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Kepstin/Official_Homepage_Relationship_Type_Proposal > >> * Discography Entry > >> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Kepstin/Discography_Entry_Relationship_Type > > > > Does anyone else have any comments on this (or a +1, -1)? > > I took a look to examples you've added to both AR types, > and honestly I had not seen any value to the linked pages. > They just seem to have a track list. > > So you should IMO demonstrate that there are cases where these pages can > be useful. > And anyway if this AR type is accepted, it doesn't mean we will accept > every proposed links. > > As someone else said in another thread, MB is not a link farm...
My intent with the 'discography entry' AR was to provide a way to attach an official reference to the Musicbrainz entry - basically, to relate it to the record label or artist's own database where appropriate. As well, this will provide an easy-to-find reference for any future editors that come along that they can check before making changes. I know of a couple record label sites that include composer/lyricist/arranger information on the discography pages, for example. But I think the link is useful on its own, mostly as a reference into an official database - an original source of information. The official homepage AR for release groups serves a similar purpose, but for a different type of page - a standalone "homepage", same as for artists or labels. Often this page will provide some additional media related to the album in question - the page on my example link has a PV video, some wallpaper downloads, and extra liner notes, for example. I can probably find some better examples - I pretty much just picked a release that I had looked at recently. The homepage link seems to be more useful for smaller, less commercial artists: I will admit that I had the idea in part just because http://thetrois.net/ is such a fun release page to play with (and also contains a lot of credits and links to related people!). -- Calvin Walton <calvin.wal...@kepstin.ca> _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
