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yeah, probably

we need everything to have ACs, probably

to really model all of this

Doesn't change the fact that two different projects by one artist in different styles shouldn't be all mixed up

if we can keep track of crediting, they can not be "mixed up" due to that :P

They will all be in a same page, so yes, they will be displayed mixed-uppily

It would be probably doable to have one artist for all and still display the performance name on pages where needed/spesific credits are… it would require lot of changes though

yeah, indeed

I would like to have two artists for that, but use them more cleverly

I'm not saying this'll happen *quickly* or anything

Say, mark what stuff is legal-name-only somehow and not show it when searching for ACs, or whatever. Dunno

reosarevok, you could also have then 1 artist, but have perhaps dynamic pages for each artist credit

I mean, I think we should have one entity per artist; pages we can do whatever

so it looks like every performance name has separate page

Or have a main entity, with some kind of "sub-entities"

reosarevok: yeah, that's what I was talking about approximating with having ACs for everything

(so, they all have MBIDs and stuff, but all are joined as "guy X")

yeah

adding MBIDs is a good idea

pretty much this

Anyway, the first thing of all should be inheriting and propagating info

(which we could do now already)

or merging, and splitting it for display :P

If I add a birth date to an artist, it should ask me if I want to apply it to the rest of his performance names etc

well, there should really be only one birth date

Yeah

I guess I was more thinking about country

performance names could have start datest then

really, what I want to avoid is things like our current pseudorelease clusterfuck

since those should really be alternate tracklists, not separate releases

of course, to improve either of these situations we need dev work

With country I could see people arguing that a specific performance name is used for a project in a specific country or whatever

Dunno

needs better location support :P

Not really

to really convey that? yes

I don’t think most performance names would even need a country

Oh, I don't care about really conveying that

I am just wondering if we can auto-inherit the country or not

(and trying to see what people might argue against it)

I think you could have quasi-inheritance

Since the main argument I've seen for merging legal + performance has been "it gets out of sync"

I guess if the person lived in one place and used a performance name there, then moved and left that name behind, it would be useful

i.e. display on the page/return in the WS the 'inherited' one, but allow setting another for things like country-specific performance names

SultS: yeah, I think of the chinese members of one of the jpop groups I listen to -- they went by japaneseifications of their chinese names while in the group

admittedly they haven't released anything, as far as I know, under their chinese names

ianmcorvidae: if we had to pick between using legal names as the main artist entry or having separate entries for legal names, even I would go for the latter :P

but the japaneseified names should probably be country:JP, while the people are definitely country:CN

ianmcorvidae: are they?

with the current definition of artist country, if their career was in JP...

ianmcorvidae: assuming you're thinking of mm, then they do have some stuff credited to them in collaborations

reosarevok: I mean if they released things under their chinese names later

but artist credits work fine for that

i.e. if they essentially had two musical careers, one in JP and one in everywhere else :P

and artist credits for relationships would work fine for the member relationships imo

nikki: okay, so, what is the legal name alias type for MBS-3788 even for then?

SultS: for performance name dates, btw, those can/should be added in the "performs as" relationship

which is to say, when is it that we don't add a separate legal name artist? I don't see any cases where that's the case right now

(speaking of which, might go add legal name artists for the members of Perfume :P)

ianmcorvidae: the most obvious cases would be when people use a variation of the real name as their main name (e.g. leaving out their middle name, using a shortened version of their first name)

reosarevok, yeah, I do that, but it does look bad on performance name page. “Legal name: (period)”. That wasn’t the point though, point was we could get rid of the duplication…

Yeah

hm, okay

and beyond that would need discussion about where to draw the line :P

ianmcorvidae: there are a lot of Spanish artists who use their Name Surname1, but legally they're Name Surname1 Surname2

nikki: you know the members of Perfume; I entered them as a~chan, nocchi, kashiyuka -- would those be cases where you'd just use the legal name alias type, then?

(since those are derivations of their legal names)

(also things like junjun/linlin, which right now don't have legal-name artists IIRC)

they do ;_;

oh, I thought I entered them, but turns out I didn't. phew :P

heh, searching for junjun gives me nothing useful

I'm not sure about the perfume example

ah, the sortname has a space in it

me adds 'JunJun' as an alias so it actually appears in the stupid search :P

(I mean, obviously *I* wouldn't complain if you did only have one artist with the legal name as an artist, but whether that's how it should be, dunno...)

er

as an alias

[21:34] ianmcorvidaewe need everything to have ACs, probably

this is what I keep saying!

:P

unfortunately, no matter how many times people say it's a good idea, it won't get it implemented any faster :P

(if it's anything like relating to works, we'll just get told to stfu instead)

???

zong, musicbrainz wikipage is like 4th or so hit for "transliterate japanese"

there we go. Only one thing left to do: find the person who added the "fixme everything" tag to http://musicbrainz.org/release/2054cb1e-0d22-4a... and get them to remove it :)

it was yindesu