Add Label Alias Edit

This edit adds a LabelAlias to an existing Label

How to do it

• The Add New Alias link below the list of existing aliases on a label aliases page takes you to a page where you can add a new LabelAlias (AddLabelAliasEdit).

Guidelines

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 LabelAlias for a complete list.
• Thanks to the Lucene search engine that MusicBrainz uses, there is no longer a need for aliases containing unaccented characters
• Use LabelAliases sparingly. Adding too many (bogus) aliases will actually degrade the search quality and encourage misattribution.

Voting

• The LabelAlias page covers most legitimate uses.

Notes

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

Prerequisites

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

Dependencies

• None

Internal Errors

• None since 6658114

Symbolic name and id

MOD_ADD_LABELALIAS ()

Discussion

• Is MOD_ADD_LABELALIAS actually correct and what is the edit ID?
• Isn't the second FailedPrerequisite a FailedDependency?
• Is 1162 applicable here?

Please AnswerMe. -- dmppanda 03:22, 07 April 2007 (UTC)