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Two like-named artists should be merged together whenever it can be proven that they both represen ...d artist is also added as an alias, making searching for commonly misspelt artists easier.

==Special Artists== Artists that I pay very close attention to:

** Show/hide Artists - placement not optimal ** Google - doesn't belong on viewing releases, move to a release's edit page.

Merging is an [[Edit|edit]] that ''merges'' two (or more) MusicBrainz [[MusicBrainz_Entity|entities]] ...signated the "target". If any fields have conflicting data (e.g. duplicate artists with different Areas), the data from the "target" will be kept.

...ed, in this case could be '''any''' update to the database. It could be an edit that changes something important like the name or just the count of how man ...feeds for artists, albums and labels. You could subscribe to feeds of your artists and see changes being made to their data in MB.

...ng and editing MusicBrainz, there are two cases in which you might need to merge two or more [[Release|releases]]: you might have found one or more duplicat ..."Merge releases" list. Keep doing this until all the releases you want to merge are selected.

...6043 edit 12636043] and [http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=12584062 edit 12584062], to see, of the various options, which option the most people pre *Option 1: A distinct Various Artists, aka "Various Artists (recorded a cover of 'Perfect Day' for BBC Children in Need 1997)" (ie, kee

** [[How To Do Smart Editing|HowToDoSmartEditing]] (overview of the edit suite) *** [[How To Merge Artists|HowToMergeArtists]]

==Artists== ===Artists that may be groups===

...will be forced to a vote. If the release is open, all edits will be [[Auto-Edit|AutoEdit]]<code><nowiki></nowiki></code>s. * Releases belonging to non-subscribed artists are unlocked.

* [http://musicbrainz.org/edit/subscribed Subscribed Entities] * [http://musicbrainz.org/edit/subscribed_editors Subscribed Editors]

...ng and editing MusicBrainz, there are two cases in which you might need to merge two or more [[Release|releases]]: you might have found one or more duplicat ..."Merge releases" list. Keep doing this until all the releases you want to merge are selected.

'''It's usually best to [[merge]] duplicate entities (releases, release groups, recordings, etc.) instead o * Even if there's no useful data attached to the entity when you enter the edit, it's possible that someone may enter it before your removal is approved. I

...]] · [[Introduction to Voting|Voting]] · [[How to Write Edit Notes|Writing Edit Notes]]}} ...isc IDs]] · [[How to Cancel an Edit|Cancelling Edits]] · [[How to Use the Edit Search|Searching for Edits]] · [[How to Report a User|Reporting a User]] �

| Total Voters who didn't edit (prior 1 week) || 62 | Average votes per edit || 1.21

...idea is that users who are subscribed to an artist usually care about that artists data. That means that it might not be nessesary to vote on their edits, thu ...nclature from 'moderate' (which is [[Bad Terminology|BadTerminology]]) to 'edit'.

== Edit searches == ...14771&field=Please+choose+a+condition merge/remove/splits in my subscribed artists I haven't voted on]

:* choose 'edit' :* Enter an edit comment if desired.