[mb-users] 2 albums reissued on 1 disc - relationships, etc

[Kuno Woudt]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 11:16:05AM +0200, Jacob R wrote:
> Many old albums, often vinyl, are reissued on one single disc, sometimes
> also with bonus tracks added. I voted no to adding relationships to the
> Wikipedia articles for the two separate albums to these reissues, since the
> Wikipedia article didn't specificly relate to that particular release,
> suggesting some kind of relationship between the original album (with a
> relationship to the Wikipedia article) and the reissue instead. See
> http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8599038 for the discussion. The
> editor in question noted that no relationship fits completely for this
> purpose. I believe an "earliest release" relationship would be OK. What do
> you think? ~Creap

I think earliest release is fine for these situations, but I guess our
guidelines don't cater for it. (but reading
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/EarliestReleaseRelationshipType, I also don't
see anything specifically not allowing this use :).

-- kuno / warp.