How to handle junk "artist" releases sharing the name of an existing artist?

I was checking the status of some edits for moving yet another addition of this album on the wrong artist, Requests for Votes Thread - #1555 by shakgriig, and I noticed the “artist” has been completely removed from all platforms now. It seems like the platforms are cracking down on these weird fake bands as I had some new ones show up last week for other bands and then were deleted within a couple of days, if not immediately.

So as a follow-up, what would normally done in the situation? Delete the artist? Set them as ended? Set some sort of void artist relationship/status I don’t know about?

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