What's the correct way of setting recording dates?

MusicBrainz
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I have been trying to edit some albums which have detailed recording date for every track, which is good but I’m a bit confused on where should I put the date. For example, there are:

  • (track) is recording of (work) on yyyy-mm-dd
  • (track) is recording at (place) on yyyy-mm-dd
  • (track)'s recording engineer/field recordist was (artist) on yyyy-mm-dd

And all instrumental and vocal roles can have a date like

  • (track)'s guitar by (artist) on yyyy-mm-dd

These all seems logically correct but also redundant if I tag date to all of them. What I see as most common is the putting the date on track-work relationship. What’s the best (or standard) practice on this?

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It’s okay to have the same date on all of them if it’s the correct date.

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All of them make sense. For example, sometimes the vocals get recorded on a different date at a different location. And then the mix happens elsewhere on a third date.

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It might look like that if you are looking at it from the release.
But it’s different when you go look at it from each individual artist/work/place entry. The dates are shown there too.

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