Do not infer attributes. Though it may seem logical that, if a work has two or more engineers, they are co-engineers, this is incorrect. Engineer, Additional Engineer, Associate Engineer, Co-engineer, and Executive Engineer are five distinct job titles. If a release has two people credited as "Engineer", then they each held the Engineer title, not the Co-engineer title. The same is true for "additional", "associate", and "executive". Inferred attributes for this relationship type can only result in incorrect relationships. Therefore, credit the relationship only as it appears on the liner, without interpretation.
This text is present at the Engineer relationship guidelines (and a similar one is at the Producer page), but not at the master, mix and recording engineer ones, which, with the way the attributes are described, basically asks for wild guessing (example: "This indicates that the person collaborated in their mastering duties, with another mastering engineer or with the performing artist, either of whom should then also be given a co-mastering engineer credit.") I would like to add it to those three pages: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Recording_Engineer_Relationship_Type http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Mix_Engineer_Relationship_Type http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Mastering_Engineer_Relationship_Type -- Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren _______________________________________________ MusicBrainz-style mailing list [email protected] http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
