I have found a very weird series

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I personally still think series should be used for items that have an intentional, chronological relationship to each other. Like multiple volumes of a collection, monthly magazine discs etc.

Just grouping some otherwise unrelated items together because they share some common characteristics should not be a series. This is better put into a collection (which is just an arbitrary collection of things someone wants to group) or even just done by folksonomy tagging.

For example a label might put out collector picture Vinyl releases under a common theme for their artists. Those releases are marketed and designed in a similar way and probably share some common naming. This could be a series.

But if someone wants to just group all picture disc releases that exists (e.g. because they are collecting this specifically) this is not a series. There is no deeper, intentional relationship between all picture disc releases in existence. Rather this could be a collection or indicated by a folksonomy tag.

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Probably throwing the cat amongst the pigeons again, but maybe this behaviour simply highlights that there is an element of data that people wish to track inside of MusicBrainz which currently has no correct “home”, and thus people are bending the (let’s be frank) “muddy” rules around what is suitable for each entity type.

I agree that a lot of this falls under general “trivia”, and sure some of it could be better done by Wikipedia, but it might be cool to have some kind of trivia section maybe on each entity type to appease these desires?

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