On Sun, Jul 7, 2013 at 2:40 PM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davito...@gmail.com>wrote:

> 2013/7/7 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren <reosare...@gmail.com>
>
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria <davito...@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> 2013/6/30 Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren <reosare...@gmail.com>
>>>
>>>> On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Frederic Da Vitoria <
>>>> davito...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> 2013/6/27 Tom Crocker <tomcrockerm...@gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>>> Looks much better to me
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 26 June 2013 22:32, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren <
>>>>>> reosare...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 2:57 PM, Tom Crocker <
>>>>>>> tomcrockerm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm guessing that the guidance on case isn't meant to be different
>>>>>>>> between ETI in general and remixes. Beyond the pointer to the oc remix
>>>>>>>> series does the remix section need to be there? Isn't it covered above 
>>>>>>>> or
>>>>>>>> could be if you put "(e.g. edit or (re)mix)" after the trackversion 
>>>>>>>> link?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Er... now that you mention it, it does seem quite redundant. I've
>>>>>>> merged it all into 4 paragraphs, and I'd say it looks much more readable
>>>>>>> now:
>>>>>>> http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:Reosarevok/Titles/Extra_title_information
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Opinions? I won't fully reset the RFC since I didn't actually remove
>>>>>>> stuff as much as reposition it, but I'll extend it a few days to Jun 30.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>> I'm still missing something about recordings. Is this supposed to
>>>>> apply to recordings or not? Your answer from june 13 seems to imply
>>>>> recordings are included. If so, I think it should be mentioned. The 
>>>>> problem
>>>>> I see is that some users could think that they should use this for
>>>>> recordings too while other users may think not, and pointless edit
>>>>> discussions might ensue.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Right now, no - that's why it explicitly mentions just tracks and
>>>> releases. Recordings are trickier since a) we don't have guidelines for
>>>> that now at all, except for the "live" comment thing, and b) they do have
>>>> disambiguation fields which means they will probably be dealt with
>>>> differently sometimes. So I was hoping to just improve the existing
>>>> guidelines, and leave the recording part of this to someone who has a
>>>> stronger opinion about it than I have - "er, dunno, do whatever I guess?"
>>>> isn't a great guideline text :)
>>>>
>>>
>>> I understand this. What I meant is that I'm missing the mention that
>>> this does not currently apply to recordings. I think this should be written
>>> here.
>>>
>>
>> I don't know. I don't really like the idea of writing what the guideline
>> does not apply to when it already says what it does apply to - but do other
>> people find this confusing? Maybe I should do it whether I like it or not,
>> if it is.
>>
>
> Put yourself in the shoes of a newbie or of a distracted user (such as me
> :-P ) You are looking for Recordings ETI. Currently, the most obvious page
> where ETI is mentioned is this one, no pages is about ETI for Recordings,
> this one does not say that it does not apply to Recordings, so the user
> would probably apply this guide. I don't think it would hurt much, because
> the Recordings ETI guide will probably be close to this. Perhaps adding a
> mention that this applies to Release and Track titles *only* would be
> better than just saying it does not apply to Recordings.
>

Hmm, I guess you're right. I've added a note, does that seem and read OK?

-- 
Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren
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