Proposal:Artist Type Other
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Artist Type: Other
This proposal is about a new ArtistType "Other". Many artists don't fit into the Group/Person scheme, e.g.:
- Some fictional characters (animals, mythical creatures, ...), e.g.: Pumuckl and Elmo
- Some fictional artists are purely created to keep a series together, e.g. Die drei ???
- Companies that were created to credit them in a relationship, but that are not labels, e.g. Type2error
There are probably even more categories. Because all of them are pretty rare compared to Person/Group and are not really in the focus of this database, I suggest a catch-all type "Other" for them. Using "Unknown" is not a really good alternative, because
- Searching for "Unknown" artists should only show artists where further research will eventually result in another type
- "Unknown" artists can be changed to any type as auto-edit, so if someone wants to leave an artist "Unknown" on purpose, anybody can change the type without vote
Update 1
If this proposal passes and the "Other" type gets implemented, the old wiki page will get replaced by this one. --Hrglgrmpf 00:39, 12 July 2011 (UTC)
