[mb-style] Band name changes (was [mb-devel] Panic! at the Disco)

[Bram van Dijk]

you convinced me too;-)

Lauri Watts schreef:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 4:06 PM, Bram van Dijk
> <bram_van_dijk at hotmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Well, http://www.aelius.com/njh/tmp/musicbrainz_summit8_schema.pdf
>>  seems to indicate that we will (eventually) get something like Discogs'
>>  ANV system.
>>
>>  But I agree that until then, it may be better  to keep the releases
>>  together.
>>     
>
> I actually think the opposite: Until we can indicate which is by which
> name when they're on the same page, it's better to keep them separate.
>
> Untangling which release has which name from all those compilations
> alone, is going to be a nightmare for some of these artists.  If we
> kept them separate now, but AR'ed, users could still follow the trail,
> albeit not as easily as if they were all on one page, and we aren't
> setting up yet another pile of rather tedious work once NGS is
> available.
>
>