There’s one thing that’s been bugging me for a long time, and I wanted to ask you for an opinion before I start an editing spree.
Back in 1986 Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds recorded a cover of the Bob Dylan song “Wanted Man”. In MusicBrainz the recordings are linked to the original Bob Dylan work with “cover” relationship, but I believe the version recorded by Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds should in fact be a separate work (i.e. a different version of the Bob Dylan original).
In “Bad Seed: The Biography of Nick Cave” by Ian Johnston there are following recollections about the song:
p. 172:
Paying tribute to both Bob Dylan, who wrote the song, and Johnny Cash, who sang it, The Bad Seeds covered “Wanted Man”. Unhappy with some of the original lyrics Cave reworked them, then added a further fourteen verses while the group played the song at twice the speed of the original.
p. 177:
“We didn’t even know how the song went,” recalls [Mick] Harvey. “Nick had started singing it at a sound check and we put a two-chord arrangement into it and that became our version of the song. Originally it’s a straight four-chord turnaround which we didn’t use at all. So we wrote our own music to it, which we couldn’t claim. So, Bob Dylan wrote six verses, Nick wrote fourteen, we wrote the music and Bob Dylan got all the money. That’s a good one.”
And indeed, the Bad Seeds version of “Wanted Man” is fully credited to Bob Dylan in their releases. But knowing the above, wouldn’t it make more sense to create a separate work with Bob Dylan as the lyricist, Nick Cave as an additional lyricist and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds (the band) as the composer? The distinctiveness criteria listed in Work - MusicBrainz don’t cover such a specific case. The new work would be a version of Bob Dylan’s original, disambiguated as “Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds version” or similar, and I could even put that Mick Harvey quote in the annotation. Finally, all the recordings of the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds version would be re-linked to the new work.
Is that the right approach, or would you recommend leaving current work-recording relationships as they are? I don’t want to start working on it only to cause an edit war 
But I think the above is valuable information that cannot be accurately represented without an additional work.