[mb-users] what's with the crusade against adding legit NATs?

[Brian Gurtler]

I've run into what seems to me as an increase of a select few people
voting NO against NATs and editing the NonAlbumTrack wiki to mold to
their opinions
These track have been released on an artists website and are going to
appear on a release that hasn't been released yet.
They are not giving a clear reason as to why they are voting NO other
than people have to wait for the tracks to appear on the release.

on the other hand the NonAlbumTrack documentation reads (and has for
over a year) as follows:

When to Use Non-Album Tracks
Internet-only release:
Often, before an album is released, songs from the album may be
available on an Internet site for download, and may be entered as
non-album tracks; however, once the album (or single) with such a track
is entered into the database, the non-album track should be removed with
?RemoveTrackEdit. Less frequently, some such tracks are available for
download, but are never included in any album or compilation.


so here we have Don't Download This Song by Weird Al
the song is available on his website to be downloaded at
http://www.dontdownloadthissong.com/tracks/DDTS.mp3 (an edit to apply
this URL to this track [1])
it mentions that it will appear on his upcoming album that's due to be
released on September 26th 2006.

so why is the addition of this track as a NAT being voted down?
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=5467441

For whatever reason 3 auto-editors seem to think that it is not a valid
NAT even though the track is out now, but the album is not.
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=5467441

Further more, why is the wiki page NonAlbumTrack being drastically changed??
Mo is going as far as editing NonAlbumTrack to mold to his opinion.
Stating "consensus" but.. i haven't found any discussion, let alone a
consensus. (look at the votes on my edit.. 4-3 in my favor.. how is THAT
a consensus?) In fact I've even asked for any links to any explanation
of the problem with adding a NAT now for a track that has been released,
and removing the same NAT when the album it appears on is released. I
don't get an answer..
The "When to Use Non-Album Tracks Internet-only release" section of
NonAlbumTrack has gone unchanged for well *over a year*
http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/NonAlbumTrack?action=info

This needs intervention.

-Brian



[1] http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=5468265