[mb-style] Guest performances again

[Philip Jägenstedt]

Very well, if nobody really cares either way then I will edit the way
that looks "pretty" to me.

Philip

On 3/3/08, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 11:34 PM, Philip Jägenstedt <philip at foolip.org> wrote:
>  > If I understand the both of you correctly, we have a situation where
>  >  different editors are interpreting this differently.
>  >
>  >  I'm not sure if it's true or not, but let's assume that Madonna
>  >  doesn't have a standard group of musicians which record all her albums
>  >  and that different drummer are used on different albums. Chris would
>  >  use "performed guest drums" AR:s while Lauri would use "performed
>  >  drums" on Madonna's albums. Correct?
>  >
>  >  To me, "guest drums" in such a situation is about as sensible as
>  >  "guest composed". I think "guest" should imply at least some level of
>  >  special status, even if not necessarily noted as "guest" in the
>  >  liners. If the artist is somehow noted on the cover (duet with Artist
>  >  Foo) then that would probably be "guest" (and a feat. in most cases).
>  >  I don't know if I'm making any sense, does anybody else see a problem
>  >  here?
>
>
> I don't really think this one's a big problem.   I don't think most of
>  us really care if the 'guest' or not is used, nor if the attribute
>  disappeared entirely or was retroactively automatically applied to
>  every AR that doesn't have it.
>
>  Sometimes it's unclear what we'll need when a new feature is
>  implemented, and things we think will be vital turn out to not be,
>  after a few thousand edits are done.  I suspect this is one of them.
>  In hindsight, I don't know why we didn't make 'featured' one of the
>  attributes.  Picard is certainly smart enough now to pick that up (it
>  already does from the track titles, with the appropriate plugin.)
>
>  I've never seen anyone arguing about the guest attribute though (and
>  we certainly like to argue about things around here.)
>
>
>  --
>
> Lauri Watts
>
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