I don't know if it's the same for the others but I feel that this current "guideline" is a bit too ambiguous(?)
People tend to paste this guideline whenever they see a set with different metadata and believe that following the correct ranked maps would generally be better for consistency sake but they either just misunderstand the "... or the official sources state something different." or totally disregard it. Moreover, I do believe that having the same metadata of ranked maps in the ranked section would make it beneficial for consistency as there is always an instance of people mapping the same song over and over again and if there are 2 maps ranked that technically both have correct but different metadata, the following mappers would just pick whichever artist/title/source they like or whichever they prefer.
Stuff such as https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/1054011 and https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/919827 go through and makes the ranked section very inconsistent when previous ranked mapsets already have the correct metadata. I would rewrite it to something like this.
Additionally, I think it should be moved up as a rule instead of a guideline due to the word "must" so everyone would follow it in order to make everything consistent.
Someone could probably rewrite it to something better but that's the idea.
Also if I don't make sense, tell me and I could probably explain further because I wrote this at like 12 AM.
If the same song exists in the Ranked or Loved sections already, the metadata should be followed unless it breaks other rules in the Ranking Criteria or the official sources state something completely different.
People tend to paste this guideline whenever they see a set with different metadata and believe that following the correct ranked maps would generally be better for consistency sake but they either just misunderstand the "... or the official sources state something different." or totally disregard it. Moreover, I do believe that having the same metadata of ranked maps in the ranked section would make it beneficial for consistency as there is always an instance of people mapping the same song over and over again and if there are 2 maps ranked that technically both have correct but different metadata, the following mappers would just pick whichever artist/title/source they like or whichever they prefer.
Stuff such as https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/1054011 and https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/919827 go through and makes the ranked section very inconsistent when previous ranked mapsets already have the correct metadata. I would rewrite it to something like this.
If the same song exists in the Ranked or Loved sections already, the metadata must be followed unless it is incorrect or breaks other rules in the Ranking Criteria.
Additionally, I think it should be moved up as a rule instead of a guideline due to the word "must" so everyone would follow it in order to make everything consistent.
Someone could probably rewrite it to something better but that's the idea.
Also if I don't make sense, tell me and I could probably explain further because I wrote this at like 12 AM.