style overviews
Some styles don't have any overview, so its stylistic definition is left for me to guess. For example, "drone" style is represented by a single artist and tagged on three albums (none by him).
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The truth is that the information we're dealing with has been compiled over many years and is made up of multiple different data sets built by different organizations that have been merged over the years. Some of these smaller fringe style designations are rarely (if ever) accessed and while they should eventually be cleaned up, since they are so low-value to 99.999% of our users, cleaning them up is at a lower priority.
Zac, this problem also applies to new styles that your editors are adding. For example, the country genre has added new styles "bro-country" and "red dirt" but not their overviews. Without overviews, I wouldn't have been aware that a few of your styles are duplicates (so both styles should be included when using Advanced Search). By the way, I've been wondering about the percentage of editors who treat styles as low-value when tagging.
"Composer songbook" has a single song (short songbook) but no overview, no artist nor album highlights.