How to fix duplicate artist entries

Hi,
Shura (UK pop singer)
and
Shura (Artist from New York)
is one and the same person. The “Artist from New York” seems to be based on artist information given on Bandcamp, but there is a second release group with the “UK pop singer” for the same album.
It’s not reported in “Possibly duplicate artists”.
How can I fix this problem?

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Hi @ernstlx,
In this case, you can merge both artist:

https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Merge

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Hi Fabe56,
thanks for your suggestion, but how can I do that? If I search the artist, I get a list of artists, but no option to merge them. I can see how to merge release groups or releases (from the same artist), but not on the artist level (except in reported lists).

In the artist page on the right hand side, there should be an option to merge under the editing section.

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In case you can’t spot it… look down on the right. It can be hard to spot.

You then merge into the “UK Pop Singer” as that is clearly the better detailed one.

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Got it, done. Thanks to all!

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