Handling name of transgender artist

[briaguya]

@Syknro

Wouldn’t the best way to handle this is to change their name and gender to their new one, and have all new releases follow that name, while retaining the old name but in the “credited as” as field, also adding their old name as an alias?

my earlier reply touches on why that isn’t ideal. using “credited as” on a release hides all mention of the non “as credited” name on the release page

that feels like deadnaming, as it is directly referring to the artist by their deadname

@outsidecontext

It might not be totally perfect, but what do you all think of the following proposal? For all releases, that had been both available under the names Patricia Taxxon and Eric Taxxon:

1. Set all recording and release group credits to “Patricia Taxxon”
2. For existing releases keep their credits as they are
3. Add a new release with the opposite name.
4. For releases that get credited to “Patricia Taxxon” and have been available before set the release date to 2019-08-20 (that’s the end date of the “Eric Taxxon” alias).

i’m not a big fan of this for a few reasons, @outsidecontext already mentioned one

@outsidecontext

I’m myself not really happy with the idea of duplicating all the releases, as I don’t actually think the release changed or it was indeed re-released, rather we are correcting the metadata.

also, the date on the updated release would feel incorrect, as it’s not a date related to the release, but instead when the artist stopped using their deadname

my proposal

as a stopgap:

• Set all recording, release group, and release credits to “Patricia Taxxon”
• Leave the deadname alias on the artist page as is
• Add a note to the annotation about Patricia originally being credited by deadname

then:

• figure out a technical solution for using “credited as” without creating release pages that refer to artists by deadname alone (unless you hover)

benefits:

• no dupes
• keep searchability (aliases with end dates still work for search)
• no losing data, as it will be in the annotation (and edit history)