Hi everybody, I hope someone can help me with this:
I’m having trouble trying to create a new artist whose name (“Child”) is already in use for other artists. When I try, the “Possible Duplicates” text pops up and prompts me to add a disambiguation, but even when I fill up the disambiguation box, it remains red with a “Required field.” message under it, and I cannot save my edit. I’ve tried on Opera and Chrome, to no avail. Is it a bug, or am I forgetting to do something?
I confirm that this is a bug. When I tested it, I was able to create the new artist despite the red warning.
Please, finish the edit that I started - I don’t know how to delete it:
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/9bed9444-0d16-436b-bdcb-ff9e2232ae2b/edit
The edit is still open (as you are a limited user). Therefore, you can go to Log in - MusicBrainz and cancel the edit.
Which I would recommend in this case, due to the typo in the name 
Can you post a screenshot?
“Disambiguation” field remains highlighted in red even after it is filled. It does not prevent the record from being created.
andreivolgin’s screenshot corresponds to what I see; also, the button “Enter edit” remains grey and unclickable. This prevented me from saving.
There is indeed a bug that the Disambiguation field remains red, but the Enter edit should be clickable as soon as you fill the mandatory Sort name field in.
You can click the Aa or the copy button for this.
I never considered the red box a bug, I considered it a feature.
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*The posted image (4 years ago) is missing a ‘sort name’, which is requirement for a new artist.
As seen on the screenshot below, i am not able to add this artist because of an error given to one of the fields. I don’t know why, i think it might be a bug. Can someone help/add the artist themselves?
The artist in question:
I am not sure, but I think you must fill the “Sort name” field.
What @Alan_New says - you need a sort name. Maybe there is a ticket somewhere to make this more obvious as that box should really light up red to give a hint.
There’s definitely an issue here. It isn’t the Sort name field at fault, though. I just looked at the “Add Artist” workflow and see the same thing. I entered the name of an existing artist and a Sort Name, which revealed the ‘Possible Duplicate’ text. The Disambiguation field is red, and the “Required field” text is below it, even after text is added to the Disambiguation field.
Even if it were related to the Sort Name field, the red text should be adjacent to that field.
I’m not actually adding a new artist, so I don’t know if this erroneous error state is going to prevent me from actually creating the artist. The OP sounds as if it will.
There’s a second issue here, but it’s just a visual one - the “required” red stuff doesn’t go away when the requisites are fulfilled, because this is old and crappy code. It should still submit fine once the sort name is there.
Hi, new user so apologies if I don’t quite follow slang, etiquette, etc.
I’m trying to enter details into Musicbrainz - but having a slight issue with the Enter Artist page in that I’ve filled the disambiguation field but it still won’t let me proceed, stating that it’s a required field. Bit I have filled it in.
Why is the field still red? What am I doing wrong? Thanks
For what it’s worth I gave them a hand via support email 
But for anyone else who ends up here, yes, this is still an issue and you should just ignore the red and submit if it lets you.
This is the related ticket, if anyone is looking:
