This proposal is designed to improve the guidelines on merging recordings, at https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Recording.

It is felt that the current guidelines are too vague, and that they don't cover all cases where recordings might be merged. This proposal seeks to expand these guidelines and make them clearer.

The proposal can be viewed on the wiki page: https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/User:LordSputnik/Recording_Style_Guidelines

We came up with the idea for this in IRC (http://chatlogs.musicbrainz.org/musicbrainz/2012/2012-10/2012-10-23.html at around 18:00), and then hawke, kovacsur and I moved onto a PiratePad page to collaborate on the wording (http://piratepad.net/AlugNu7mfa).