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

[Lauri Watts]

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Lauri Watts <krazykiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  >  Lauri, am I wrong or the case mentioned here concern *groups* and not
>  >  Perf Names?
>  >
>
>  You're not wrong.  Sort of.
>
>  We discussed it briefly at some point here, or in edit notes, I don't
>  remember, and
>  can't find right now, but to summarise:

Sorry for the mail flood. I'm going back to work in a sec for at least
another 6 hours,
it'll quiet down, I promise:

http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6058878
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6514232
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=6120417

(and to show it's not just me that this makes sense to, none of these
edits are mine :)

Nabble is offline for maintenance,but I'm pretty sure this crossed
over to mailing
list around the same time (hence my 'another vote' phrasing in one of
those edit notes)

-- 
Lauri Watts

>
>  * There's really no semantic difference between a group as a whole
>  performing as
>  another group name vs a person doing so (there are examples of for instance,
>  The Beatles rolling up to a random club and doing an unannounced set
>  under a completely different name)
>  * The AR text makes no reference to performance names being only for people.
>  * The AR lets you set start/end dates when the name was used too.
>  * It just makes sense when you look at it on the page (honest, look at
>  Teddybears, it's
>  quite clear what is going on)
>  * It satisfies all the people expecting either name, and the case of
>  albums being reissued
>  under the later name.
>
>  Let's say it's a bit of emergent behaviour.
>
>  Panic(!) at the disco doesn't have the AR, but it could.
>
>  --
>  Lauri Watts
>