On 15/08/07, Brian Schweitzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > well, we can only link an artist in the first place if they are a musical > > entity. you can't add legal firms, etc, to musicbrainz, so the website > > AR is > > the only way to refer to them as an AR at all. > > > > in my experience it's only artwork guys that are occasionally musical > > artists, but not often. > > > > Well, I think this is another issue - it's where the "don't create > non-musical artists" runs headlong into the entire group of existing and > forseeable non-musical ARs. We're already stretching the "artist" term with > all the "not an artist, but credited in the liner as having done x" artists
well, i was fairly sure that the guidelines did not allow you to do this, but then i check http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Artist and it seems you can. personally i'm not a fan of adding non-musical 'artists' to MBz, but it looks like that has long been allowed, oh well!
_______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
