label Comment
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Description
The label comment is a field in the database used to help distinguish labels with identical names. It's structurally identical, and has the same purpose as the artist comment field.
The label comment will appear in the search results next to each name: the comment should be kept fairly short. A few words is normally enough, just enough that someone reading it will recognize the Label they're looking for. The label comment field is not a place to store general background information: that kind of information should go in the LabelAnnotation.
You will be prompted to enter a comment any time you enter a new Label which shares its name with an existing Label, but you'll not be prompted to enter a comment for the "old" one. To enhance the search results, you should ideally provide a comment for the old Label as well, by editing it on its EditLabelPage.
Editing trick
Sometimes, we want to add a comment to a label, though there is no other identically named label. There is an easy trick to achieve this in one edit:
- edit the label, and change the label name to an existing label name...
- you will then be prompted to confirm that you want to perform this change, by providing a comment and by ticking a confirmation checkbox
- change the label name back to its original name, provide a label comment, tick the checkbox, write an edit note. Submit. That's it!
