What are we even doing 
voting is exhausting but this shouldn’t happen again to a real release (that’s 2 releases i know are real in a short time now…)
Wasn’t there a (now invalid ofcourse) bandcamp link attached or in the add release edit notes?
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Good riddance.
If you follow the artist link and the other linked artists, there are still many other fake music releases to remove, IMO, all added by @sexsexsex (probably same person as Zippy Kid).
But I’m not wasting my time with this.
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Which part of this page mentions troll releases? 
Not specifically but i was referring to this whole part
As an encyclopedia and a community, MusicBrainz exists to collect as much information about music as possible. We do not discriminate or prefer one genre of music to another, and we try to collect information about as many different types of music as we can. Whether it is published or unpublished, popular or fringe, western or non-western, played by humans or computer generated – we want it all recorded in MusicBrainz.
How do you even define “troll” releases anyway, and what sets it aside from an experimental album which cover art and titles you just don’t like or get. Who decides what is and isn’t? I see no reason why this release or any other of Zippy Kid’s music shouldn’t be on MusicBrainz.
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This should probably be readded, and it’s amazing that it basically only was a problem in last.fm because 20 years later, they are still unable to differentiate artists of the same name 
That said, the artist does seem like a troll and I certainly can’t be bothered to fix and readd his stuff.
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Yeah, its real annoying that Last.FM’s structure is based on the artist’s name. Even with referencing the MBID for their API still returns back to the names. But I’m sure it would require them to associate each scrobble to MB or another DB to untangle their mess.
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I was done with this thread, but certain points keep nagging at me.
I’m fine with the goal of recording info about all types of music, but I would hope that the goal is to record accurate information about that music. That was my objection to the edits/editor in question, not, as was unkindly assumed, because I “don’t like it.” It was clear, at least to me, that the editor was entering untrue credits, for example (weren’t they crediting things to Taylor Swift, or am I confusing this case with another?).
And now I’m done with this thread again.
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Not as far as I am aware, it was always new artists (but I may have missed something).
I have opened a merge to have ‘Pink Floyd’ as an alias rather than a separate artist entity, which tbh seems like a basic fix that would solve everyone’s issues with this, including lfm?
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This I agree with here. The artist is picking random name to associate their music to so they can get a reaction. Especially when they then only release the one track. These are aliases. Underneath is the original artist.
Rude words in titles should not be a reason to delete a release. Even low circulation numbers should not stop the record of the release. Especially as in this case the person’s release has caused debate. That alone is noteworthy.
Seeing Last.FM deleting releases as they break their lousy system is the worst part of all of this.
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Thanks, readded it, as open edits because it’s controversial but I don’t think that should be necessary Edits for Wish I fuck her - MusicBrainz
I left out the status because it might have been removed by bandcamp but I’d think the artist doesn’t see it as not official anymore?
Sorry, but that comment was not directed at you but to jesus 
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I think that fits under “withdrawn”.
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I’ve seen multiple editors say this and I can see the argument, but I still disagree (or lean towards disagreeing, not entirely convinced). To quote the guidelines:
An official release that was actively withdrawn from circulation by the artist and/or their record company after being released,
Bandcamp isn’t a record company and the artist didn’t have anything to do with this being removed.
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It may not have been the artist or the label, but it has been withdrawn from circulation by the only source where it was available.
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If the party responsible for the removal doesn’t matter wouldn’t that also include government mandated takedowns?
I have asked before whether platforms removing releases are withdrawn
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If it makes you feel better @RandomMushroom128, the ‘expunged’ status was created so that releases could be marked as withdrawn without impacting the DB too much/so they’re not so much of a big deal. If release groups are ever hidden from artist pages, etc, it would only be the more extreme ‘expunged’ type. I agree that ‘withdrawn’ has a few different interpretations, but I wouldn’t lose sleep over it myself!
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