I was just researching an artist, and realized it would be useful to add a link in Musicbrainz to their booking-agency’s page for them. An example of such a page is ALINKA - Sweat Lodge
These pages are particularly useful for having (presumably) authoritative information about upcoming shows for the artist. And extra useful when the artist shares their name with other artists, since you can’t trust sites like songkick/bandsintown to do disambiguation properly.
Do we already have an Artist-URL relationship type that is appropriate for this sort of page? Or is this one that we maybe want to add?
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Created a ticket here
Relatedly, what do you call it when certain link types are shown on the main MB page for the artist, but other URL types only show up if you click on the “Relationships” tag?
You mean that only some are shown in the sidebar, right? Or are we showing URLs in the overview page somewhere else?
Right. Certain URL types are “promoted?”/“privileged?”/“trusted?” and are shown in the sidebar, while others are not.
What’s the right word? “promoted”? “trusted”? Something else?
We generally just use “displayed on the sidebar” I think 
There’s no official wording though.
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I’m curious… how is it represented in the database? Which table/column? The database wording is sorta like an “official wording”.
It’s not a the database thing, it’s on the code layer. We just have implemented sidebar display for a selection of links (mostly official homepage, blog, review and the ones that can be autoselected and cleaned up). Basically, for a specific site being on the sidebar it generally requires a dev writing code for it, sourcing and adding a favicon, etc. The usual thought process in the old days was “well, if a page is linked to at least 1000 times, it might make sense to do the work to put it on the sidebar” but I don’t think it’s a concrete rule (for example, things in the other database whitelist are added to the sidebar by default even if they have no uses yet).
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