Re: [mb-users] Keep ID after takeover?

On 13/08/12 16:46, Philipp Wolfer wrote:
> But I don't agree with you on the notion, that a MBID is only
> a temporarily identifier for an entity in the MB database at a specific
> point in time. I really believe the opposite, that a MBID should be a
> permanent, stable, unique identifier. Only that way other parties can
> rely on MBIDs, and that's how I understand
> http://musicbrainz.org/doc/MusicBrainz_Identifier .

Indeed an MBID should be permanent.

So, to everyone:  if during editing you encounter a situation where two 
artists were merged together by mistake, and the split has now created a 
new MBID for an artist and the old MBID for that artist is incorrectly 
in the redirect table for the merge -- please contact a developer (e.g. 
find warp on irc :).  We can fix the MBID redirect manually. I expect 
this doesn't happen too often, but if it does we'll have to create some 
kind of interface for a group of editors to more directly fix MBIDs.

MBIDs are what connects musicbrainz to the music collections and 
databases of our users and clients, and it is very important that an 
MBID doesn't suddenly refer to a different entity.

-- kuno / warp.