[mb-users] Use of the "contains miscellaneous support" AR

[Fred Marchee]

Day Dreamer schreef:
> I recently came across some edits that add the "contains miscellaneous support" AR as a means of adding "special thanks" and hair stylist etc info. 
> Check that in the Backstreet Boys edits: http://musicbrainz.org/mod/search/results.html?artist_type=3&artist_id=486&orderby=desc
> The Backstreet Boys: http://musicbrainz.org/artist/2f569e60-0a1b-4fb9-95a4-3dc1525d1aad.html
> The album Black & Blue: http://musicbrainz.org/release/1b7bf9ce-00be-418d-8ea9-b059029a20a5.html
>
> Only now did I realise that this could be used as an AR, I thought it was only a "bundle" used to group the sub-relationships. The thing is, do we use it as a kind of miscellaneous thing for every AR that is not specified (like hair stylist/make up etc?)? Do we use this for keeping the thanks list? I personally think that we should not keep the special thanks list anywhere (ok in an annotation if necessary) cause it would create a vast amount of "artists" that have nothing to do with music, like a random friend etc. Is really a hair stylist/make up artist info we should have in MB and in fact as an MB artist?
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> ps: I apologise for my weak english
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I think that it is useless to write down all the peoples in the "special 
thanks" section. An average 80's or 90's metal CD contains at least one 
page in very fine print "thanks to" and they don't forget the parrot of 
mothers neighbour!

I don't know if there are rules but I think that you can use a person in 
an AR when you think that this name will and can also show up in another 
release. The postman certainly won't but a guy behind the mixing console 
can and he can even be famous in some years.

Just my thoughts,

Fred.