[mb-users] ArtistType

[Johannes Dewender]

Okay, quite often a person has solo projects, where they are the only 
members. A good example are most projects of 
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/a4ef3c7c-38f6-45f3-b2b1-c7e17671ea21.html
We have basically two possibilities:

1. categorize the project as person and add a perform as AR
This looks then something like
"Stijn van Cauter" performs as "I Dream No More"
I don't like this at all, because this is not a name for the person, it 
is a project by this person.

2. categorize the project as a group
This person is then a member of this group. The only member.
Obviously, this doesn't sound right either, because 1 person is not a 
group.

Referring to http://musicbrainz.org/doc/ArtistType we only have these 
two types at this time and referring to 
http://musicbrainz.org/doc/ArtistTypeProject it won't change soon, 
because it is stalled since years.

So I would like to use Group also for Projects (even if they only have 
one member), but my edits get no votes, because they are no "groups".
some examples:
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8714537
http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8714562

How do we deal with this, since we don't have a project Type? Why don't 
we implement this one? Is there some secret agreement, that didn't fit 
in the docs yet?

--JonnyJD
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