Rethinking the [dialogue] guideline

[kellnerd]

This is actually one of the first rules which left me confused when I was new here in 2019:

Should the SPA [dialogue] be used for recordings with known performers?

According to the style guidelines the purpose of [dialogue] is to be… Used for tracks which consist solely of dialogue, and which aren’t credited to anyone on the release tracklist. For example, the “Royale With Cheese” discussion from Pulp Fiction would be correctly assigned to [dialogue], not to “John Travolta & Samuel L. Jackson”, since the tracklist has no artists for that track. Their performances within the track should instead be indicated by a vocals relationship (generally spoken voca…

Since the guideline only talks about tracks specifically, I have already interpreted it as in your approach b) ever since and credited the recordings to the real artists and left only the tracks credited to the [dialogue] SPA

But as this topic is now coming up again, I am strongly in favour of going with your approach a) and get rid of the SPA whereever it is possible (in tracklists and recordings). In any case the guidelines should be clarified because this is neither the first nor the second time this topic comes up.