[mb-style] RFC: new AR 'Artist X wrote the liner notes for release Y'

[Simon Reinhardt]

Mangled wrote:
> To be consistent with the other stuff on this page, it would go like:
> 
> "
> * artist or URL provided liner notes on release or track
> * release or track has liner notes by artist or URL
> "

Oh I wasn't implying to be consistent with them, I also think that looks ugly. ;)
Just that we put it in that section.

> Now, personnaly, I would simply strip it off to the following:
> "
> * artist wrote liner notes on release
> * release has liner notes by artist or URL
> "

I liked "for" more, and you surely forgot to strip off the "URL" here. ;)

> (a) because "Liner notes" provided by an URL are no longer "Liner
> notes", but are a "Third party review" IMO (except possibly in the
> case of net releases?)

Yeah, URLs make no sense here.

> (b) because I can't imagine liner notes per-track (hence I think this
> AR only apply to releases, not to tracks)...

I have at least one album where the members of the band talk about every track in detail.

> (c) because I feel "provided" is ambigous, and wrote looks better...

Yup.

> And well, we may have "additional" for this AR.
> It can be usefull when a reissue provides the original Liner notes and
> also new "additional" liner notes.

Or when one person wrote the main blurb and another one wrote a smaller one.

Simon (Shepard)