[mb-users] ArtistType

[Johannes Dewender]

Am Samstag, 3. Mai 2008 schrieb Mark Trolley:
> I have the same issue with Neverending White Lights (
> http://musicbrainz.org/artist/eccce577-a890-4924-8861-e61db68bf1b4.ht
>ml), which is a single person, Daniel Victor, that has guest vocalists
> perform on most of his tracks. I categorized it as a Person, since
> there were no other official members.

Well to give you an impression why I think this is wrong:
The wikipedia article starts:
"Neverending White Lights is a Canadian music collaboration project 
fronted by Daniel Victor" and not "Neverending White Lights, also known 
as Daniel Victor is a Canadian musician".
Fronted by, basically means he is a/the only member of NWL.
Performs as would be indicated by this typical aka.

The wiki article about David starts:
"Daniel Victor (...) is a Canadian musician who is most famous for his 
work in the collaboration of Neverending White Lights."

You can either say, wikipedia is very wrong with these lines, or you 
admit, that defining NWL as a person in MB is not the right thing to 
do.

I already stated, that the name "group" for the non-person type is not 
very good either, but the rest of the stats fit well. A group and also 
a project is founded. A person is born.


--JonnyJD
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