I am looking at a release by J.S. Bach (https://musicbrainz.org/artist/24f1766e-9635-4d58-a4d4-9413f9f98a4c), the Berliner Philharmoniker (https://musicbrainz.org/artist/dea28aa9-1086-4ffa-8739-0ccc759de1ce/), and Sir Simon Rattle (https://musicbrainz.org/artist/80c3bce9-0b54-409c-aa10-3b0c7dbbc597). A few hours, all three name were highlighted with a yellow background, as if for a pending edit. I see the same thing on each artist’s page. Now, Bach’s name is no longer highlighted, but the Berliner’s and Rattle’s names are still.
I tried to understand what edits were pending by looking at the open edits for each artist. For instance, right now Rattle’s open edits list (https://musicbrainz.org/artist/80c3bce9-0b54-409c-aa10-3b0c7dbbc597/open_edits) has exactly two entries:
- Edit #41818184 - Edit artist credit https://musicbrainz.org/edit/41818184 .
- Changes from: Artist Credit: Schoenberg; Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Artemis Quartet, Simon Rattle, Jeffrey Tate
Arnold Schönberg as Schoenberg, Phyllis Bryn‐Julson as Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Artemis Quartet, Simon Rattle, Jeffrey Tate (conductor) - Changes to: Schoenberg; Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Artemis Quartet, Simon Rattle, Jeffrey Tate
Arnold Schönberg as Schoenberg, Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, Artemis Quartet, Simon Rattle, Jeffrey Tate (conductor) - This appears to be a change to artist credits in a Release, but I don’t see which Release is the source of this edit.
- There is an edit comment: “The artist name has been changed in edit #41818161.”
- Edit #41818161 https://musicbrainz.org/edit/41818161 is a change of name spelling for Artist “Phyllis Bryn‐Julson” https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f0f0d88c-d107-44cc-861c-450aedbf999d .
- Changes from: Artist Credit: Schoenberg; Phyllis Bryn-Julson, Artemis Quartet, Simon Rattle, Jeffrey Tate
- Edit #41818174 - Edit artist credit https://musicbrainz.org/edit/41818174
- Changes from: Artist Credit: Phyllis Bryn-Julson, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
Phyllis Bryn‐Julson as Phyllis Bryn-Julson, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle - Changes to: Phyllis Bryn‐Julson, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
- This appears to be a change to artist credits in a Release, but I don’t see which Release is the source of this edit.
- There is an edit comment: “The artist name has been changed in edit #41818161.” (same as for edit #1)
- Edit #41818161 (same as for edit #1) https://musicbrainz.org/edit/41818161 is a change of name spelling for Artist “Phyllis Bryn‐Julson” https://musicbrainz.org/artist/f0f0d88c-d107-44cc-861c-450aedbf999d .
- Changes from: Artist Credit: Phyllis Bryn-Julson, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle
So I don’t understand, from looking these set of edits, why the Simon Rattle name should be highlighted as if for a pending edit. Nor do I understand why a name spelling change to one Artist, Phyllis Bryn-Julson, should result in an open edit for a different Artist, Simon Rattle, simply because both Artists were mentioned together in the same artist credit. I don’t understand why the change in Artist credit involving an Artist, but not changing any of the Artist’s data fields, should cause the Artist’s (Rattle’s) name to be highlighted in yellow for a pending edit. And if these open edits aren’t the reason for highlighting Rattle’s name, I don’t understand how to find out what is the pending edit which is motivating the name highlighting.
This isn’t about Rattle or Bryn-Julson’s entries. I see several Artist names highlighted, and I would like to understand how to find out exactly what that highlighting is trying to indicate, for any Artist. The exact set of Artists affected will vary as edits get created and closed. It turns out that at this moment, Rattle is a simple example.
What am I missing?