[mb-users] Group had to change there name - two artist entries?

[Chris B]

On 26/02/2008, Alexander Kiel <alexanderkiel at gmx.net> wrote:
> Hi List,
>
>  please look at the group nimmzwei [1]. They had to change there name in
>  2002/2003 to superzwei because nimmzwei is a product name of the German
>  candy nimm2 [2]. You can read about the name history [3] if you be able
>  to read German.
>
>  If you look at there Covers [4] they used the name nimmzwei until "Intim
>  2000" and began to use superzwei with "superzwei live".
>
>  So am I right if I opt for removing the superzwei alias on nimmzwei and
>  create a new superzwei artist instead? What would be the appropriate
>  relationship between the two Performance Names than?

legally forced name changes are usually adopted, with the previous
stored as an alias - see http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/ArtistAlias
(point 15)