Hello List, I have added a lot of legal names artists for writing credits as this makes the task a lot easier to have 2 things in the dataabse. Using the databases listed in http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Work#External_databases that deal with legal names it makes it easier to find someone in the database that already exists. Having these extra entries allows me to search for artists and see if the ipi matches the works database. As long as the policy allows for these to exist in some form it makes my job easier.
Now the works databases can be quite inconsistent with some artists and the way they are credited can change a lot over the years. Some artists will use an alias at the start of thair career and later it is changed to thair first and last name and sometimes this is then changed to first middle last name with 3 or more ipi numbers for the artist. One example of this is groove armada where we have Andy Cato / Andrew Derek Cocup and some being credited with one or the other variation of name. http://musicbrainz.org/artist/35723b60-732e-4bd8-957f-320b416e7b7f/works http://musicbrainz.org/artist/15649f44-ae4f-40d6-857e-820db654f1ea/works http://musicbrainz.org/artist/a37337bd-bcf4-412a-9cce-434ca7c41e87/works I have a preference to not merge artists as i usually assume that someone created it for a reason. Not to say that I don't do it but I try and see if there is a lot of overlap between the two. One thing that I would like is someone to create a plugin for picard that for writing credits looks to see if there is a legal name alias and uses that instead of the name. This will make things more consistent and if someone has created an alias it will have the same effect than creating a new artist in the database and changing who wrote the work. Regards, Daniel On Sun, Jun 28, 2015 at 12:19 AM, Nicolás Tamargo de Eguren < reosare...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! > > When we recently released MBS-7489 ("Artist Credits for Relationships"), I > took the gist of the guidelines in the old Artist/With Multiple Names page ( > https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/index.php?title=Style/Artist/With_multiple_names&oldid=67846) > and turned them into > https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Style/Artist#Performance_names_and_legal_names > > That current guideline basically continues our old "leave separate only if > they're different projects" guideline, but admittedly that wasn't a very > followed one because a lot of people wanted to keep legal name (usually > writing) credits separate not to lose that detail. MBS-7489 allows that, > but some people have requested a discussion whether it *allowing* it means > we *should* do it, or whether the limits should be more strict than "all > except different projects". > > On the comments for STYLE-534, KRSCuan said: > "My suggestion is to only merge artist entries that can be considered a > relatively small variation of each other. Which encompasses pretty much all > the examples on the current version of > https://wiki.musicbrainz.org/Aliases, but not much more. The rationale is > that even a user unfamiliar with an artist (which e.g. appears on a VA > compilation) should be able to pick the correct one just going by liner > notes." > > My own opinion on that is that it should be solved by showing which alias > (best) matched the search term for each entity when searching, so that if > people search for (for example) a legal name and get a performance name > back, it will show "Performance name (Alias: Legal name)" in some way. I > feel it's a display issue that shouldn't affect what we choose to merge. > But I'm happy to hear opinions on it! > > Another thing that could be discussed is whether an artist consistently > using their legal name for songwriting credits (on releases - work > databases basically default to legal name anyway so they shouldn't really > count) should be seen as a different "project" and kept unmerged, or should > be merged unless there's explicit artist intent. > > But basically, I'm curious about people's opinions on the whole thing and > where each of you would set the limit for merges, so opinions away! :) > > Cheers, > Nicolás > > _______________________________________________ > MusicBrainz-style mailing list > MusicBrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org > http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style >
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