On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 01:49:45PM -0400, neothe0ne wrote: > http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Performance_Name_Relationship_Type > http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Same_Artist_With_Different_Names > http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Artist_Alias#When_NOT_to_use_aliases > > MB makes clear that Performance Names are to be linked to Legal Names, and > aliases are not supposed to be used for performance names. That's good, but > what happens when no one knows an artist's real name?
No link apparently, looking at all those votes. I voted in favour, but as you said, it's technically against the guidelines, so I understand the no votes. I fear if you want to link these two artists you will have to propose changes to the Performs As AR on the musicbrainz-style mailinglist, or propose an entirely new AR for this purpose (also on mb-style). > Disregarding the fact that the debate in > http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=10881818 is a complete trainwreck, > you can be pretty clear, even if you can't read Japanese, that "KOTOKO" and > "kotoko" are different artists. KOTOKO has released all her music and > written lyrics for other songs as "KOTOKO" for nearly 10 years, and she > specifically announced that "kotoko" would be a side project. She has > releases as KOTOKO scheduled for August, and she wrote lyrics for the > "kotoko 1st Single" as "KOTOKO", so it's not a case of inconsistent artist > capitalization either. > > I am of the opinion that for all intents and purposes, "KOTOKO" is almost > like a legal name, and "KOTOKO performs as kotoko" would be an alright edit, > even though it bends MB guidelines. Because iff "kotoko" can't be linked to > KOTOKO as a performance name, then there is nothing you can do to link the 2 > artists together, when they should be linked. > > I am hoping we can get some discussion on Performance/Legal Names and see > everyone else's opinions on this matter, when no legal name is known but one > performance name is used consistently, almost like a legal name. Again, to me it seems like an entirely reasonable use of that AR. -- kuno / warp. _______________________________________________ Musicbrainz-style mailing list Musicbrainz-style@lists.musicbrainz.org http://lists.musicbrainz.org/mailman/listinfo/musicbrainz-style
