#musicbrainz

I was thinking of something more specific to a release rather than a generalized list.

Like, I could import a release in a language I don't understand

And I could write in in a dedicated section that I couldn't properly capitilize the track titles

And an editor in the future could take a look at that section as they're viewing my release

I want to enter a song (and artist?), but I am hitting a dilema: There is already an artist with the same name, with barely any relationships and discography that I am unable to correlate to anything created by the artist behind the song I want to enter. Should I enter a new artist for the same name?

rph (@_discord_102038103463567360:chatbrainz.org) yes, a new artist is the safe choice for something like this

if I turn out to have been wrong in the future and these 2 artists are the same person, I guess there is the possibility to perform a merge?

if it laters turns out to be the same person, they can just be merged (although if there's a discography you can't match, that's unlikely anyway)

For context: This is the artist page on Musicbrainz: <https://musicbrainz.org/artist/a998c7c7-dc46-46...;

and here is the artist (that I want to add songs of) of the same name on spotify: <https://open.spotify.com/artist/2rkNfHlDA0t9QY9...; and youtube: <https://www.youtube.com/@EzzaWan/videos>;

I will create a new artist page, because I see zero correlation here

yeah, especially since there's not a single source in the edit history for that artist

oh I need to provide a disambiguation, hm what would the "correct approach" here be

I guess I can just write "EDM artist" for this one

a genre is a useful start, if you have a geographical reference that's often very helpful too

is the youtube location field a good enough source for location?

if you reasonably believe that it's set by the artist, sure

I don't like putting location in disambiguation, because it's already stored elsewhere...

That can be said about a lot of what people put in them though

basically everything

disambiguation is really a comment or remark to help people idetnify what the entity is at a quick glance / search / query lookup

e.g.

yeah, I understand, but genre is not captured elsewhere, and is most frequently actually disambiguating