[mb-users] Artist vs. Artist and His Orchestra

Mister Maxis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.audio.musicbrainz.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dear all,

I'm really concerned about the following kind of edit ( http://musicbrainz.org/edit/17920887 & http://musicbrainz.org/edit/18497710 ), especially when done and/or voted by Auto-Editors, I have recently seen it twice and I remember seing it before.

By doing so, it basically deletes the artist named "Artist and His Orchestra" making impossible to add
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Member_of_Band_Relationship_Type
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/Orchestra_Relationship_Type
and probably others...

"Percy Faith" is an artist of type "Person" =1 human being
and
"Percy Faith and His Orchestra" was an artist of type "Group" >1 human being
This is the very basic of MusicBrainz and merging one with the other has as much sense as merging all the artists into Various Artists.

So either it's legit to do such merge and I would like to see the guidelines where it's mentioned and why,
or please vote No to those edits when seing them, don't Abstain we're losing information with those edits.
Thanks in advance.

Is it possible to unmerge ?

Best regards,
-MXS-

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