Re: [mb-users] ARs for references in works?

> I am starting to believe I am wrong. But about your last question, the last
> link could need corroboration. Anybody could enter such a link based only on
> the title similarity. What I was hoping for is some sort of proof that this
> similarity is not accidental,

Glad to hear! :-)

Absolutely, but just in the edit note. As for other edits of course we
shouldn't add stuff we're just guessing and we should be wary of edits
without (relevant) edit notes.

I admit the distinction between the needs of an editor and the needs
of a user where only editors are interested in the edit notes isn't as
clearcut as I made it out to be. When you use the database everything
is served as facts, but clearly a suspicious user might want to see
some references, and it would be good if that was easier to find.

Say you're looking at the work "Manic Monday" with the Bangles,
http://musicbrainz.org/work/e342d4e3-1559-3ef0-8212-3f0140e81354 ,
where it says that Prince wrote it. Say that you're immediate thought
is "no way!!!" (you'd be wrong). You want to see if that is really
true. What proof do these musicbrainz people have?!! What do you do?
To begin with the "Editing history" button is only present if you are
logged in. That I don't like. Show editing histories for everyone! And
even if you manage to press that to see what source was given for
this, you have to scroll down through other edits. Ideally I would
like an option for editing history for every fact as well, that gives
only the relevant edits.

(In this particular case there is a linked Wikipedia page on the work,
so the skeptical reader would do better checking that.)