James T. Cotton vs JTS - rename vs new artist

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The other day I was cleaning up some tags of mine and got to James T. Cotton (a performance name of Tadd Mullinix). Tadd uses a number of aliases and even with this one it’s been printed as James T. Cotton, James Cotton, and JTC. While adding some info I came across this link (JTC · Biography) and noticed it said “JTC (formerly James T. Cotton)”. Additional research showed he hasn’t used the “full name” since around 2010 and it’s been all JTC since.

Thought I’d get to cleaning things up and entered this edit (https://musicbrainz.org/edit/107638083) to formerly change the entry to JTC while adding several missing releases from the last decade. Now I’m starting to have second thoughts. While they were all used interchangeably before 2010, maybe JTC should be broken out? Discogs has them all together (https://www.discogs.com/artist/500506) under James T Cotton and Ghostly puts it all under JTC (Ghostly International - JTC).

Any thoughts? I’ve got no problem cancelling the edit and moving releases to a new artist entry, but I’d like to get an idea of how the community feels on something like this.

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based on what you shared, I think I’d favor what the label(?) page says and group them all under JTC, with aliases for all their previous names

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I agree; the Ghostly writeup indicates that JTC isn’t considered a distinct project from James T. Cotton (unlike his other pseudonyms Dabrye and X-Altera, which do each seem to be treated as unique).

In general, it makes sense for the artist entity to use the name in current usage, with ACs for releases under a previous name.

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Awesome, thanks for the feedback.