background: the original edit is a simple removal of disambiguation. No biggie. No real right or wrong answer with that. Except, in the meantime, someone (me) added 2 artists of the same name. Both are songwriters with works listed at BMI, not random YouTube artists.
So, the editor decided with the two new edits:
merge a possible match even though no one has been able to confirm they are the same. Even I suspect they are the same but am unable to confirm. Anecdotal is all I find. Nothing that says, absolutely, yes, merge. (which is why I created the artist instead of adding it to the original)
Rename the other artist so that the original artist is again the only remaining artist of that exact name, which would justify the original edit (removal of disambiguation). This would also make the newly named artist a one-of-a-kind named artist, which would not require disambiguation.
So, we start with 3 same-named artists with 3 disambiguation. The end result, if the edits go through, would be 2 different named artists with 0 disambiguation.
Take a look. Read the history. Voice opinions. Vote.
Can somebody please approve https://musicbrainz.org/edit/82981558 so the medium of this rather poor release I’m trying to improve could be changed to a CD.
To do: fix the tracklist and re-create the incorrectly merged recording for track 9.
i mistakenly added a new rg when importing from atisket. if i could get approve or yes votes, i would appreciate it!! https://musicbrainz.org/edit/83102037
I think it is because the auto-edit only works on a track name and not an artist name. I corrected a Featuring to featuring earlier and that is also stuck in limbo.
A conflated MB and a conflated Discogs (which was mostly fixed a couple years ago) led to the recent creation of a new MB.
But which name should it be?
The full legal name, which does not “require” disambiguation. Or the proper artist name, which is an exact name match and therefore will require disambiguation.
i did not say disambiguation will be unneccessary. if you feel the need to add disambiguation, you can, but i am extending the name because that is literally the artist’s name.
They are all to fix up disambiguation comments on recordings that are different from the disambiguation comments on the other recordings on the same release.
(my take away is that I should’ve explained this in the Edit Note).
Not necessarily a voting request as rather a review one. I have just added a gargantuan, 52-track compilation commemorating 30th anniversary of Tresor label & club: Release “Tresor 30” by Various Artists - MusicBrainz
I tried my best to match artists to our db as well as recreate title style, but with this many tracks I could make mistakes. If anyone’s willing to take a closer look, I would appreciate it.