Artist Area: Country vs City/Higher Specicifity

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I’m resurrecting this thread ([STYLE-855] Clarify Artist-Area and Label-Area field instructions: specific, or country, both OK? and its twin), due to an edit reversal I made.

I’d rather avoid an editing war, so I will leave the decision to others.

  1. My addition, Dis Fig, an artist hailing from NYC, USA, who moved to Berlin:
    https://musicbrainz.org/edit/60072327
  2. A later edit that generalized the area to Germany: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/74092479
  3. My current reversal attempt: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/75174046

What I wish to emphasize, as I did in my edit note, Berlin has a very special place on the European cultural map and for many years has functioned as a haven for multinational artists, especially operating in the experimental areas.

I believe this is exactly one of these cases and this NYC artist chose to move specifically to Berlin for the above reasons, not just any German city.

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