Alfred Scholz releases: how to separate from real artists? What about the recordings?

[rgr0m]

I’ve tried to figure out what the consensus is on how to deal with fake attributions to real artists for A. Scholz releases. After reading the wiki article I made a first attempt here

• https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62331771 and
• Edit #62331772 - MusicBrainz

After finding a few more releases which contaminate real artist discographies like for Leipzig Philharmonic - which didn’t exist when the fake attributions were created but does indeed exist now - I’ve tried to find out some more about how to go on with a Scholz decontamination.

For the two edits above I did create new “shadow” artists with a disambiguation as the wiki article seemed to suggest. But maybe it would be better to just change the affected artist credits to
unspecified …?

Also, afterwards, would it be a good approach to merge recordings into recordings already stored under Alfred Scholz if a reasonably good match can be found?

[jesus2099]

@rgr0m

Leipzig Philharmonic - which didn’t exist when the fake attributions were created but does indeed exist now

We can use this name as an artist credit of Alfred Shultz, no?

[reosarevok]

@jesus2099

We can use this name as an artist credit of Alfred Shultz, no?

Well, not quite: he clearly didn’t play the whole orchestra The orchestra might be connected to him, or maybe it’s just some random cheap recording he bought the rights for, or who knows.

[rgr0m]

If it’s the right way to do it I think a new “shadow entity” for the Alfred Scholz invented Leipzig Philharmonic is required because since 2000 there actually is a Leipziger Philharmonie (EN: Leipzig Philharmonic) who releases music.