For anyone joining here later, note that there is a more focused topic discussing what is and isn’t “Withdrawn” at What is "Withdrawn": a discussion thread + examples 
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Surely these terms would make more sense as secondary Release Statuses (schema addition)?
Edit: Upon further reflection, perhaps these terms would be even better suited as optional attributes of Release Events themselves? I suspect that this would better account for inevitable corner-cases.
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I don’t think a secondary release type would work, since in most cases the release is replaced by a different release, whether with new album art, different artist credits, or a slightly different tracklist.
however, withdrawing a release in a particular country is quite possible. I don’t know of any particular cases offhand tho… even so, that could be added as a separate withdrawn release in whatever countries.
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I don’t think a secondary release type would work, since in most cases the release is replaced by a different release,
I was referring to a hypothetical “Release” → “Secondary Status” (not “Release Group” → “Secondary Type”).
however, withdrawing a release in a particular country is quite possible. I don’t know of any particular cases offhand tho… even so, that could be added as a separate withdrawn release in whatever countries.
Could be, but wouldn’t that defeat the conceptual purpose of Releases (a representation of a particular media) and Release Events (the release of a media in X territory) in the first place?
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could, it really depends on how you determine the line between different releases. for what it’s worth, I probably wouldn’t split releases like this, I was just putting it out there as an option~
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do physical releases actually have to be made to be added?
because i’m questioning the validity of a vinyl that was scheduled, but not funded enough
vs a vinyl that actually exists, but was not released.
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yes, I believe those would both be cancelled releases.
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I’m wondering, is there any specific way how to handle announced releases?
I ask because, an announced release might get cancelled before it’s ever released. If it would be added with status “Official”, “Promotion” or “Bootleg”, and no one ever comes back to set it to “Cancelled”, there would be a release in the database that never actually was.
The entered release date also would be the planned release date, not being correct in case the announced release gets postponed.
Adding the option “Announced” could be a hard call however. If no one returns to change the status after it’s effectively released, it would show as if it has yet to come. Unless it would automatically change to something else (“Unconfirmed” or something like that?) when the entered release date is in the past.
Or am I overthinking this too much?
Yes but, if we could set a release as announced, maybe no one would come back to set it as official, once it’s released.
I think official already includes both officially announced then officially released.
Less editing. 
I guess so, yes.
Cancelled is too rare to force us editing all the 99.99% non-cancelled releases differently with 2 statuses.
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I think Official + future release date is effective enough for these. not that I’d be against a new status, it just seems a bit extra to me
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