STYLE-327 requests allowing linking artists (and I imagine at least labels would be a reasonable choice too?) to their pages on Patreon, Flattr and the like. This sounds useful to me, but it’s not a service I’ve used in the past so asking for opinions:
Is there a reason not to add this?
If we add it, to what entities? Artist and label sound like a reasonable start but are there other relevant entities? Places? Festivals (series)? Events?
Not opposed to such links. Wouldn’t even mind them being given extra attention on the page (larger icon, noticeable “support this artist/label/…” heading).
Artists and labels, sure. Events and places, maybe. Series, not so sure (could just have the link on the entry for whatever is the next, upcoming, event).
One reason not to do this (and esp. to not highlight them in any particular fashion) is that people could add fake/phishing donation/patronage links. There are currently limited to no monetary incentives for falsifying MB data. This relationship would add some.
Note that this doesn’t mean I’m against the relationship, just that it’s something to be wary of.
The relationship is in now. I’ve added a ticket for adding autoselect to it, which I’ll probably get to eventually if nobody does it before me (please, someone do it before me? ).
I had to link a site named tpiee.
The difference between Patronage from this topic and Crowdfunding from that other topic is difficult for me it’s a site to collect money by fans in any cases so I cannot determine if tipee is one or the other relationships. Shouldn’t we just merge both those relationships to free them from ambiguity?