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

[Age Bosma]

Lauri Watts wrote:

>>
>> I do understand that a lot(?) of people might be reluctant with such a
>> big change all of a sudden. Because of that I think I have to agree with
>> Kerensky97. We could still change the the current 'performs as' AR to at
>> least be able to create a link to other band/artist names. At the moment
>> there are already releases divided over different artist names because,
>> unlike others like e.g. Prince, in those cases it was decided to keep
>> them separated. Especially in case of joined names an artist annotation
>> can be added explaining the situation, optionally with a link to a wiki
>> page with a discussion or more reasoning if needed.
> 
> That's what I think is best, just user performs as.  The link text
> doesn't necessarily even need changing. And there's nothing technical
> stopping people already doing this, other than voters (I bet there's
> some already in the DB done this way, in fact, that got through.)
> 

Sorry for the delay.

The link text does not need to be changed but the relation phrases do to 
make it fit for 'performance name <-> performance name' relations in 
case of artist and band names.
I think we should still be able to make a distinction between an 
'performance name <-> performance name' relation and a 'performance name 
<-> legal name' relation if we change the current 'performs as' 
relation. First of all because that's the current explicit purpose of 
the available 'performs as' relation and secondly because there's a 
significant difference between the two.

Because of this the current proposal still stands if it comes to the 
introduction of a 'legal name' attribute and and the following link phrases:
1. '*artist* is/was a performance name used by *artist*'
2. '*artist* is/was a performance name used by the legal person's name
*artist*'
3. '*artist* is/was performing under the name *artist*'

Where phrase 2 replaces the first if the 'legal name' attribute is checked.

Unless someone can think of something better of course ;-)

Yours,

Age