Does this really need a Style change?
from style/artist#name
In most cases, it is the name as found on releases. If an artist uses
multiple names, see the guideline for artists using multiple names
From there, legal name alias and ACs handle every case I can think of.
Which form of the name to use for the artist-name field seems very
case-by-case. Is the honorific used in credits? How often?
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That said, it would be nice to update style/artist/with_multiple_names a
bit. Some of it sounds very pre-NGS.
On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 3:20 PM, David Gasaway d...@gasaway.org wrote:
Hi,
I'd like to propose that we remove honorary titles from artist names,
i.e., Sir Thomas Beecham [1] should be simply Thomas Beecham.
They are not really part of the artists' names, and should not apply
to times before the titles were bestowed. ACs can be used to indicate
the title if they are featured on a release, of course. I'd like to
see this added to Style/Artist.
[1] http://musicbrainz.org/artist/0e6ccc63-41cb-4903-8b7d-60846aca6d58
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