# Jennifer Lopez or J.Lo/JLO? **URL:** \ **Category:** Style\ **Tags:** artist-credit\ **Created:** [August 3, 2017, 4:04pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jennifer-lopez-or-j-lo-jlo/316981 "2017-08-03T16:04:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 5
**Author:** ![WovenTales](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/woventales/32/5963_2.png) [@WovenTales](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/WovenTales)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2017, 8:38pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jennifer-lopez-or-j-lo-jlo/316981/5 "2017-08-03T20:38:20Z")
The Kiss logo isn’t a good comparison: the “SS” is stylized, but they’re still clearly S’s. If you don’t know who JLo is for whatever reason, there’s no way to figure out that it means “Jennifer Lopez” just by looking at the text. Crediting something that only ever shows “J.Lo” as “Jennifer Lopez” is no more helpful than crediting it in Arabic _unless_ the text on the album is in Arabic itself. And this is one of the key points in the debate: “artist credit” means something slightly different on MusicBrainz than it does elsewhere – we may use stage names or discographies or store pages as secondary support for which artist _entity_ to link (or for the Metallica black album), but for the display we almost always fall back on what’s shown in the artwork. That displayed name is what we mean when talking about artist credits. If we ignore the spine for the moment and pretend that we only have the front cover, that’s “J.Lo”. The fact that we _do_ have the spine and that it’s different from the front is the issue, not what we’d do according to the latter. There’s already been several threads talking about the difference or about other things related to the split: > [@Is MusicBrainz primarily a database or a tagging library?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/is-musicbrainz-primarily-a-database-or-a-tagging-library/210477): > > Continuing the discussion from [Guidelines on "feat." join phrase [STYLE-671]](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/guidelines-on-feat-join-phrase-style-671/206449/7): If this isn’t already a settled question, it really should be. My understanding is that the MB project grew out of a tagging library, but is primarily a database. The first sentence of the [About page](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/About) has said as much since [2003](http://web.archive.org/web/20030602174658/http://www.musicbrainz.org/introduction.html). Of course, the transition has been gradual. As the data model improves, as Picard improves, MB becomes farther removed from its tagging-library roots. That said, I’m not an “as on cover” p… > [@Album cover vs. page text for digital releases](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/album-cover-vs-page-text-for-digital-releases/310075): > > @Deleted_Editor_1807782 recently requested some votes for renaming an artist along with their artist credits; I voted yes on the first and no on the second, and @jesus2099 offered a bit more information on common practice for that. @Deleted_Editor_1807782 did point out, though, that the new name (“KARD” rather than “K.A.R.D”) is the one used on the older covers, despite the page itself using the variant with periods – see, for example, [this release](https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/k-a-r-d-project-vol-2-dont-recall-hidden-ver/id1210334116?i=1210334348), though it’s technically part of the title the… > [@Language style guide vs cover?](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/language-style-guide-vs-cover/245565): > > The german [language style guide](https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Language/German) talks about the use of “ß” for double-s. Do we strictly follow this style guide even if a double-s word is written on the cover with two “s” instead of one “ß”? Example title “Das weisse Lied”: The new uploaded cover-art shows “Das weisse Lied” not only on the front cover with “ss” it is also written with two “s” on the back-cover tracklist: --- _[View the full topic](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/jennifer-lopez-or-j-lo-jlo/316981)._