Is it one that could just be moved?
Nah, It’s easier for me this way.
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Two things:
- Anybody care to vote on the edits to make this artist go away? When I saw it was the only one of 9 artists that didn’t have a disambiguation, and that all the tracks were on compilation/dj albums, my gut said something was fishy. Sure enough, I traced the three compilation tracks to three OTHER artists that already exist in the database.
https://beta.musicbrainz.org/artist/d259e41d-089d-4447-8d6f-69a4215f5dc4/open_edits
- Similarly, this release doesn’t actually exist (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MC_Hawking#Fictional_discography). I’ve entered edits to merge the recordings into actually released (or in a few cases standalone) recordings before the release itself is removed.
https://beta.musicbrainz.org/release-group/ce467ca3-93e0-402a-8658-08fa49b96089/open_edits
De-stylizing edit that needs more opinions:
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/60774629
Should the slash be removed in the sort name for ‘TR/ST’ if it’s meant to be read as ‘Trust’?
Edit #60778046 - Remove medium
It was released today and I’d like to fix it swiftly.
Also upon sending the edits I was greeted with a long error message:
https://pastebin.com/MVPEBPfy
The edits were silenty accepted though.
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This has developed into an interesting discussion of what to do with the fake “releases” that were created to go along with the Greatest Hits album, if anyone else has input:
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Wasn’t sure if I should necropost in one of the gdpr tagged threads or create a new topic but it’s still voting related.
An editor has added an artist with exact birthday and now wants to remove this date.
Apparently it’s the artist herself. So far I couldn’t find any other public source for that date. Her user profile on MB displays her age though. Should we let this slip through?
Edit #60854225
Edit #60854264 (dupe)
Similar case
A few days ago there was an editor who acted on behalf of the artist and wanted to remove the birth date after adding it in the first place.
I voted no and referred them to https://metabrainz.org/contact
Kinda regret it now.
Merging Falco aliases into stage name. This Edit #61272768 could be a little controversial, so I post it here.
Hello all you nice AE people…
In the next 24 hours the edits I did in that thread should drop into place. There is a longish list of identical changes that were done. Voting is generally positive and the majority seems to be with 3-2 even a 4-2 in places. Other “yes” votes were verbal in the thread from MB staff.
But there may be an issue I need AE help with on Tuesday. Some of these are still sitting on 2-2 due to the length of the list. If those on 2-2 are still like that this time tomorrow then there will be a awkward state of the changes having been half applied to some releases.
Please help me make sure that whatever the majority vote decides is then applied to all these edits in a consistent manner. If the majority of the edits are still in the positive votes then please help by pushing the 2-2 votes up to the same level.
Lets make this “all or nothing” - if that makes sense. Thanks. 
This good edit needs some votes, or else it might not be applied: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/61333463
Merging auto-generated DistroKid labels into parent:
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/61460452
Yay or nay?
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https://musicbrainz.org/edit/61462243 - I need this artist marked as alive so a related merge will not be marked dead (incidentally it was the artist themself who checked the deceased flag 
).
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Hi, I’m making a merger of a quite important duplicated electronic/ambient music label (Apollo Records):
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/61534055
It will require some clean-up after it’s done (like changing name).
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The person to call is @Zas as he created the duplicate… I’m using the “Power of the forum” to summon him. These @ symbols are easier than drawing pentagons on the ground.
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Will the links merge properly? I don’t really remember how it works.
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Personally I don’t always trust the merge to be 100% perfect as there are many items that don’t get transferred like disambiguation text. So I make pre-merge edits and start by copying over the links I want to keep into the Target. Especially now the votes are piling up as a Yes
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An editor is trying to redact a legal name and performance name relationship:
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/61632562
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/61632584
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/61632921
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/61632956
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/61632967
WP connects both names. Same for Discogs and possibly other sites.
Could someone speaking French mediate? Merci 
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Apparently we’re going to need some input here:
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/61702084
I think there are cases to be made for whether a comma or a colon is the better choice here (and I misspoke at first about the guideline), but the fact that I only edited one in the series doesn’t seem like a valid reason to vote no.
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I am cleaning up the Man Against the Machine release group. After the songs are merged I will merge this release into this one because it was entered with the wrong number of tracks before the album was even released. All help finishing this is greatly appreciated.
Here is the list of edits needed before they can be merged.
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As this seems to be a controversial area (see Same album sung in different languages on MusicBrainz), it would be good to see current community stance:
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62009521
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62009516