Add Artist Alias Edit

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This edit adds an ArtistAlias to an existing Artist

Contents 1 How to do it 2 Guidelines 2.1 Editing 2.2 Voting 3 Notes 3.1 Prerequisites 3.2 Dependencies 3.3 Internal Errors 3.4 Symbolic name and id

[edit] How to do it

• The Add New Alias link below the list of existing aliases on an artist aliases page takes you to a page where you can add a new ArtistAlias (AddArtistAliasEdit).

[edit] Guidelines

[edit] Editing

• Aliases are useful to enhance search results; there are a number of legit reasons to create a new alias: misspellings, variants, numbers... Be sure to read ArtistAlias for a complete list.
• Thanks to the Lucene search engine that MusicBrainz uses, there is no longer a need for aliases containing unaccented characters
• ArtistAlias in MusicBrainz are not the same as in Discogs: an alias here is nothing more than a search hint, not a way to collect different names used by an artist in different circumstances (use a PerformanceName in that case).
• There is no reason to add an ArtistSortName as an alias.
• Adding aliases won't help LastFm! They don't use MusicBrainz data anymore, and don't use ArtistAliases anyhow.
• Use ArtistAliases sparingly. Adding too many (bogus) aliases will actually degrade the search quality and encourage misattribution.

[edit] Voting

• The ArtistAlias page covers most legitimate uses.

[edit] Notes

At that time, ArtistAliases have to be unique (780).

[edit] Prerequisites

• An AddArtistAliasEdit will fail due to a FailedPrerequisite if that alias already exists (be it attached to the same artist or to another one).
• An AddArtistAliasEdit will fail due to a FailedPrerequisite if the artist is deleted by a RemoveArtistEdit.

[edit] Dependencies

• None

[edit] Internal Errors

• None since 323276

[edit] Symbolic name and id

MOD_ADD_ARTISTALIAS (15)

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