[mb-style] RFV: How to handle band/artist name changes

[Age Bosma]

Kerensky97 wrote:
> Add me as another person who really likes this idea but not the wording of
> "legal".  If we can just think of a different way to word it I think it
> would be great.
> 

Who are the other people who don't like the wording of 'legal'? ;-)

> Offtopic:  RFV already?

Yeah, there was no response on the other thread any more and this RFV 
was the consensus of that discussion. It's a bit strange that people 
start to object to the 'apply attribute automatically' bit now instead 
of earlier.

I have to agree with the arguments given and we shouldn't apply the 
'legal' attribute to the existing ARs automatically for the reasons they 
pointed out. I do, however, see no reason to leave the 'legal name' 
attribute out or change it. I can't think of any other way of naming it 
and I think we all agree that we should be able to make the distinction.

We could change the AR even more to allow it to be used for all these 
relations:
- 'legal name <-> legal name'
- 'performance name <-> performance name'
- 'legal name <-> performance name'

It will get complicated but at least it will allow us to specify 
multiple legal names where it's needed.

A way to implement it could be:
- Provide a dropdown or radio button selection to choose a) 'performance 
name' or b) 'legal name'
- Change the phrases to:
1. '*artist* is/was a name used by *artist*'
1a. '*artist* is/was a performance name used by *artist*'
1b. '*artist* is/was a legal name used by *artist*'
2. '*artist* is/was using the name *artist*'
2a. '*artist* is/was using the performance name *artist*'
2b. '*artist* is/was using the legal name *artist*'

I guess we are starting the process all over again but how does this sound?

Yours,

Age