# Artist: Gerhard Narholz - IPIs, works and aliases

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-gerhard-narholz-ipis-works-and-aliases/698949
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Created:** [June 5, 2024, 11:28am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-gerhard-narholz-ipis-works-and-aliases/698949 "2024-06-05T11:28:56Z")
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### Author: ![Darkloke](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/darkloke/32/22634_2.png) [@Darkloke](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/Darkloke)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2024, 9:30am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/artist-gerhard-narholz-ipis-works-and-aliases/698949/8 "2024-06-06T09:30:59Z")

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> I wonder how hard would it be to have a plugin to always follow legal name relationships when tagging in Picard for example for people who prefer that consistency. @outsidecontext, how doable does that sound? 🙂

Yeah, it would be a good solution too. If Picard could use MB linking to virtually “merge” different artist alias in one entity (basically the “root” one) for the music player - it would be good. In that case i suppose it would be ok to link IPIs with separate artist entities and then link it to the “root” artist.

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> Basically the main question here is “are the aliases different projects”, as usual

It’s very hard to talk about “projects” at all when you work only with PRO data and when production music composers dont have any official sites, social nets, wiki pages and etc, so basically you only know them by legal name/aliases + IPI number in databases. 😄

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