Mark dead-end pairs in ‘relationship types’ table

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    • Type: Improvement
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Priority: Normal
    • 2026-02-12
    • Affects Version/s: None
    • Component/s: Data display
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      At https://musicbrainz.org/relationships , all “related/coordinate points” are filled & linked as if there were actually relationships for them, which is misleading. Currently, there are 20 dead-end links (of a total 91):
      Area-Artist
      Area-Place
      Area-Release
      Event-Genre
      Event-Instrument
      Genre-Recording
      Genre-Release
      Genre-Series
      Genre-Work
      Instrument-Place
      Instrument-Recording
      Instrument-Release
      Instrument-Release group
      Instrument-Series
      Instrument-Work
      Place-Release
      Recording-Release
      Release-Release
      Release-Work
      URL-URL

      Unavailable relationship points should be displayed as such, not luring editors into dead-end clicking. Most intuitive way, keeping coordinate field filled intact for navigation, also communicating intent (≠ mistake) through visibly inactive links, would be to have the dead-end links greyed-out, and a text right on the page ~“Grey link: This relationship does not exist.” rather than having the links active (“Something here”) but dead-ending (“Nothing here”).

            Assignee:
            Nicolás Tamargo
            Reporter:
            Griomo
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                2026-02-12