URL lookup while adding URL relations

Since we have a url lookup now, would it be a good idea to lookup each url rel after cleaning it up? I mean it would be a good duplicate detection. I imagine a similar behavior we have when adding an entity with the same name as an already existing one. It don’t have to be that restrictive but at least a warning would help a lot to avoid adding duplicate artists and finding the already existing.

I have to add many small artists when I add festivals and my “bot” automatically seeds the not identified artists.

Or would it be better when I do the lookup in my “bot” beforehand? But then no one else will take an advantage from it.

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In theory this makes sense - that’s what https://tickets.metabrainz.org/browse/MBS-12071 asks for AFAICT.

I have to admit that I have not searched the tickets before.

Looks exactly what I want. Vote + Follow :+1:

Would that automatically apply to all url editors because it is the same base component or should I mention for which entitities I need it the most?

I think it should, yes - IIRC even the release editor (which is generally a different messy thing for now) uses the same component for this.

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