[mb-style] Guest performances again

[Bram van Dijk]

Well, http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/PerformerRelationshipType says 
literally that

*"additional" and "guest"*

There is no guideline yet that specifies what /exactly/ these two are for.

These seem to overlap a little. I suppose that "*additional*" should 
designate performers who did not play a main role in the performance. 
While "*guest*" designates performers who are not usual members of the 
group that performed, say, the whole release, but only appear on one track.

So, personally, I only add them if the liners explicitly say "guest" or 
"additional".

Bram / jongetje

Philip Jägenstedt schreef:
> 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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