The issue has previously been discussed here, although as with this topic the original topic was something else:
In that topic, @jesus2099 suggested using [Worldwide] as a placeholder along with entries for one or more countries. Including this idea, there are three different approaches:
- One release event per country available
[Worldwide]as a placeholder[Worldwide]as “almost worldwide”
Some of you have implied that using [Worldwide] is “[introducing] wrong data into the database”, but it is in fact not so if we define [Worldwide] to mean “worldwide (with restrictions)” in the guidelines. We could even introduce a new [Worldwide (with restrictions)] area, but I don’t think this would be a necessary distinction because releases can never actually be entirely worldwide anyway.
With the issue of correctness out of the way, this is from a perspective of usefulness. It just seems like a whole lot of useless data to have every iTunes release with no restrictions of its own list every single country that iTunes is available in as release events. A script could easily make this happen, but do we really want one to?
Thank you @yindesu for clearing up the confusion regarding the US URLs.
The topic seems to have diverged completely from the original discussion. Perhaps a mod could split it? The geo URL seems very useful to me, possibly useful enough to list instead of one regional URL for each country as we do now (regardless of the conclusion of this discussion). Definitely useful enough to list it along with regional URLs for a start. Unfortunately, MusicBrainz Server currently seems to mistakenly edit it into the US URL when entered.