In this case, as there are no Facebook/Wiki pages for the Bev Bevan Band, I think links to Bev Bevan are absolutely acceptable. Both pages mention the band and, indeed, 99% of the Facebook page is all about the band. I don’t think we should get too bogged down in minutiae. The point is that the links provide more information about an artist - both of these pages do.
Should https://musicbrainz.org/artist/da242c37-513f-4cde-8bb7-7bcaeca09bb9/edits be removed or merged or split?
You can merge it into any one of the three, there is nothing to split as the artist has no credits.
Misuse of Aliases https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62080159
Any opinions?
https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Aliases
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Started a discussion on the Forums
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I’d like to get more of a consensus on Paint It Black vs Paint It, Black:
Just overhauled this Rolling Stones box set which was entered very poorly: https://beta.musicbrainz.org/edit/62197637
If someone can approve adjusted track length of edit #62219030 that would be great, so I can move on augmenting the release with Spotify data.
There is a Disc ID on htis release, if the Disc ID is correct, please Set track times from it. Otherwise, please argument and remove the Disc ID.
But don’t edit track times manually in case of CD with TOC attached, it’s quite useless. 
Likewise, don’t take ISRC from Spotify, take them from CD but not from another edition like Spotify.
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These are adjusted track time based on the CD TOC / Disc-ID.
Two composers on cover, but according to PRO and an interview only one composer was involved.
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62137218
Could use more opinions here: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62275047
If this is not the correct approach I’ll just cancel it. It’s like the opposite of a 2-in-1.
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I’m fairly sure this violates our guideline about release groups, but I think I need some more eyes on it.
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Some newbie added a few links to a filesharing site as a “Download for free” link. If a kindly auto-editor would approve these I’d appreciate it.
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62338751
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62338748
https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62338729
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Off‐topic, but just wanted to note that sometimes artists themselves upload their albums on those/such sites, and I’ve added links to those in the past. Just being a filesharing site doesn’t invalidate it for being a proper “download for free” URL… but in this case, it almost certainly was. So thanks for removing them. 
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I had thought about asking why these sites weren’t blacklisted, but I then I realized the answer was probably “indie musicians”.
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Can someone please review the live recordings I decoupled (https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62368156), so I can continue working on the release.
Same story on another release with the same series: https://musicbrainz.org/recording/8b7f517e-ee69-4d1b-829c-8a0894e0c390/open_edits
Another recording got mixed up: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62393695
and this one: https://musicbrainz.org/edit/62394241