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

This is a very interesting topic. While I understand your concerns, it does
not make sense either to not be able to find a release by "Percy Faith and
His Orchestra" in the "Percy Faith" entry. Imagine a compilation by Percy
Faith. Now, a few tracks on this release, are credited as they should be,
by Percy Faith and His Orchestra. Those associated recording won't even
appear on the Percy Faith's recording tab. That's so wrong, IMO.

Actually, I don't know Percy Faith but I had this happening with other
artists such as Catherine Ribeiro or John McLaughlin. :P

We need to find a way for such releases by "Joe Bob and His Terrific
Orchestra" to also appear in the "Joe Bob" entry. Not being a scripter I
wouldn't know how to do this though. :(

2012/8/22 Mister Maxis <[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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