[mb-style] RFC: New Artist Type: Project

[Stefan Kestenholz]

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>
> Second, from an interface stand point what we have today with Person or
> Group should remain as is. What people are describing as collaborations
> and
> projects are still groups (more than one person) so these terms really are
> just group descriptors. If we want them then we should have group
> attributes
> not new ArtistTypes. It's also a better way to handle solo artist "groups"
> like Lightening Seeds and Aphex Twin which are thought of as groups but
> only
> have one member. Again, not a project but instead a pseudonym.


well, i disagree with Aphex Twin not being a project. It does not matter how
many participants a project has. Simply put, if a person does not perform
under their legal name, it is a project, and a person with legal names may
have 1...* of those.

On the wiki, we have a flat structure for complex pages and it works. Your
suggestion to introduce attributes for the type "Group" is creating a
hierarchy of two levels for a very simple problem. This is like targetting
cannonballs against flies (german saying, dunno if it translates well into
english)

Stefan
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