Collaborator's Handbook Released

Any questions can be sent either to me or posted within this topic. 

Collabs should pay attention to the version number on the handbook by the way, it'll help you keep up with any changes made. Course I will announce them here too.

Current guide is V1.0.1

First number refers to the guide's overall version. Unless we for some reason throw the whole guide out and rewrite from scratch this one won't change. 

Second number is for major amendments. If it changes it's because we added a new rule or changed an existing one drastically.

Third number is for minor changes. I expect it may change a few times in these early days as we get more feedback on the guide. You can see it has already changed once, because I forget to add the '50% rule'.

This is the rule that states that a release must be at least 50% metal (and let's say, 50% rock, for the sake of argument, as in something you'd call progressive rock/metal), to get into the metal subs. Less than 50% metal is when you should start looking towards talking to me in MR. 

An obvious thing that was somehow left out of the guide. 

Here's another bit of Web Wiz Forum weirdness, my contents page for the guide no longer works past the Inclusive Genres section. 

Policy on Reissues and Special Editions MMA does not allow reissues or other special editions of releases to be posted as separate entries on artist profiles. Any reissues and bonus tracks/materials that feature that come with them should be noted on the original entry. Bonus tracks included on such issues should not under any circumstances be included in the main track list featured on a release page.

Yeah, it's a tricky business. If we consider From There to Eternity to be a mere renamed reissue, then what else is Visions of the Beast but a renamed DVD reissue of From There to Eternity with another 10 years worth of videos added?  So put your heads together admins, we need a rule! 

Oh yes, I thought this was sort of covered already but I missed the Stratovarius example looking for it just now. But compilations are indeed a different deal. Everywhere I look I see mentions of From There being a reissue of First Ten, but after 22 years it's impossible to say if it was so presented at the time or is it just a matter of people looking at the track listings years later and supposing so.

So let's leave it as it is.

And yeah, perhaps you should add a word. It was enough to get me confused, so perhaps someone else will wonder about it too.