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

[Olivier]

2008/4/14, Jacob R <creap0 at gmail.com>:
> 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 earlier thought the same, but changed my mind.

Wacky pages are not edition specific - unlike Discogs.
They often give the track list of a random edition - or the list of
the original release, and additional notes about bonus tracks on other
editions (see for eg
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Train_%28album%29).

Sure, linking it to every edition is redundant, but they are not
"wrong" as in "discogs page with non matching tracklist".

2 cents...

- Olivier