Seeking Experienced MusicBrainz Editor for Catalog Cleanup, ISRC Entry & Artist Disambiguation

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Subject: Seeking Experienced MusicBrainz Editor for Catalog Cleanup, ISRC Entry, Release Group Structuring & Artist Disambiguation

Hello MusicBrainz community,

I am looking for an experienced MusicBrainz editor who can help properly audit, clean up, and fully structure my artist catalog in MusicBrainz.

Artist:
Christian Parker

Official Website:
Christian Parker Official Website

MusicBrainz Artist Page:
Christian Parker MusicBrainz Artist Profile

Spotify:
Christian Parker Spotify

Apple Music:
Christian Parker Apple Music

YouTube:
Christian Parker Official YouTube

The catalog is partially built out already, but it needs technical cleanup, enhancements, verification, and consistency improvements.

Main goals:

• Proper ISRC entry for recordings
• Verification of recording relationships
• Cleanup of duplicate or fragmented recordings
• Release group organization
• Label consistency
• Correct release formats and metadata
• Linking and normalization of digital releases
• Proper relationships between older CD Baby releases and current Orchard/Edgewater releases
• External links and streaming service relationships
• Artist disambiguation improvements

One major issue is artist/entity disambiguation. There is another musician named Christian Parker online, and I am trying to strengthen the structured metadata around my catalog so search engines, streaming services, and knowledge panels correctly identify my releases and artist identity.

There are also older catalog remnants from previous distribution versions that may still be creating duplicate or conflicting metadata online.

Examples of releases needing verification and enhancement include:

• Every Passing Mile
• Through the Darkness
• Best Kept Secret
• Wonderland
• Sweethearts: A Tribute to the Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo
• Change Is Now: A Tribute to the Byrds
• American Cosmic Revival: Back At Home

Current distributor:
Edgewater Music Group / The Orchard

Older distribution remnants:
CD Baby

Some releases may share the same recording masters and ISRCs, while others may require separation if they are different masters/remasters. I want the database structured correctly according to MusicBrainz standards.

I am specifically looking for someone experienced with:
• MusicBrainz recording structure
• ISRC management
• Release groups
• Digital music metadata
• Catalog normalization
• Artist disambiguation
• Legacy catalog cleanup
• Discogs

If anyone here is interested or can recommend a trusted editor with deep MusicBrainz experience, please let me know.

Thank you.
Christian Parker

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Are you looking to pay someone, or looking for a volunteer? For the former, I don’t know if there’s any policy on paid editing, but I might be interested if it’s allowed. For the latter, I’m not interested, but somebody else might be. Alternatively, if you have some time, you could learn how to make those edits yourself, and people on the forums would probably be happy to help with any questions.

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In Poland, an hour of a programmer’s work costs between 100 and 200 PLN netto (excluding VAT), which is 25-50 EUR.

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This post from @aerozol would suggest that it is allowed. There may be a policy on disclosing exactly which edits are paid.

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I took a quick look through your MB and Wikidata pages and made a couple quick edits.

Are Christian Parker - Wikidata and https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q139604880 both you? They have the same birthday and birthplace. They should be merged if they refer to the same person.

Is https://musicbrainz.org/user/humphreypatrick201 you? If so, I left comments on a couple of your edits. Merging recordings is a much better way to consolidate your discography; just changing the recordings linked to each release would leave the old recordings behind, with no indication of what release they are from.

I have extensive experience with all of that and would be willing to put some time into tidying up your profile(s). The scope would depend on compensation. It would also depend on whether you have additional data sources to integrate.

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Note that Wikidata’s policies/attitudes are very different from MusicBrainz’s though:

I tried to push back against that a little bit, because I think the factual information on Wikidata is fundamentally different from subjective prose on Wikipedia and should have different policies, but I didn’t get anywhere.

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This is a good point. Wikidata does say that it is ok to correct factual errors about oneself.

Whether those two pages were created in compliance with that policy is another matter; I suspect that at least one is not, since it has no references and was created 2 weeks ago by an editor who has done nothing else. The other one has a longer history, but most of the edits are again by one editor. I would certainly not dispute it if Wikidata decided that Christian Parker does not meet the notability guidelines.

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PS: Part of the reason I looked through the profiles was to see if this person even exists. The post here was almost certainly generated by an LLM (ChatGPT, to be precise),

I am relatively confident that the Christian Parker in question does exist; their website has a history going back to at least 2016.

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Ok great, can you email at info@christianparker.com