# Disambiguation guidelines

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/disambiguation-guidelines/499791
**Category:** Style
**Tags:** disambiguation, musicbrainz
**Created:** [October 18, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/disambiguation-guidelines/499791 "2020-10-18T22:38:30Z")
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### Author: ![aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/aerozol/32/116_2.png) [@aerozol](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/aerozol)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2020, 2:18am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/disambiguation-guidelines/499791/5 "2020-10-19T02:18:25Z")

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What is the difference between giving someone an informed choice between:

- [artist A] and [artist B]
- [artist A] and [artist B who doesn’t exist in MB yet]

I just don’t see the benefit in waiting until there’s heaps of artists mashed together, and then sorting it out and disambiguating.

I spend a lot of time un-mashing artists as it is, so now I will always disambig. It doesn’t always stop people matching their euro-dance releases to a “New Zealand metal” artist but every little bit helps.

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