yindesu
September 7, 2025, 5:25pm
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This has been discussed before:
I guess disambiguations shouldn’t be extremely long, so I wonder which infos are considered most important to be included.
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Bonus Question: What infos should be included for unknown artists (e.g. if you create a new artist because you don’t know if one of the already existing artists of the same name is the same as yours)?
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Anything else that I missed?
I often find myself editing releases in genres that I know next to nothing about. Disambiguations can be very helpful here when they guide me quickly to the correct choice. But the usefulness depends on the disambiguation having an association with something I know already.
The example from the Documention illustrates this well,
Randy Jackson (brother of Michael and Janet).
Great if you know who Michael and Janet are.
Otherwise no use.
As the database grows there will be more and more dupli…
I know this is going to be decisive, but I’m curious to see what people think. Sorry, if this has been discussed already:
Should an artist disambiguation be required for all new artists?
Why? I’ve been using RateYourMusic.com heavily the last year to see what things they do better, worse or just different. RYM require a disambiguation for all new artists, which actually makes sense for a few reasons:
We never have to worry about updating the existing disambiguation of the “old” artist in the…
Besides which, an MB Artist’s primary area is not necessarily what the disambiguation comment is in the first place. For example, when two artists from Japan are named Anna, one disambiguation comment might be “Russo-Japanese” and the other is not.
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