Talk:Style/Artist/With multiple names

Same artists with different names

Groups changing name

There still is some discussion on how to handle band names changes, as of early 2008 both in the style mailing list and in edit notes on artist "Panic at the Disco".

So to assess the extent and nature of what we need to handle, below follows a list of such artist name changes, to which category they belong, how these cases were handled and how that fit with our current guidelines.

Bands going by different names at the same time, using the names in an interchangeable manner to cover essentially the same stuff

• Sun Ra mess

• Resolution currently is: keep names separate when the difference makes sense (according to SameArtistWithDifferentNames)

Bands changing their names at some point in time, for other reasons

• La Ruda (formerly La Ruda Salska)

• Resolution currently is: in line with SameArtistWithDifferentNames - artist entry was renamed (just one entry), alias and annotation were added to describe the name change

• Panic at the Disco (formerly Panic! at the Disco)

• Merge is ongoing, but will certainly pass at the current trend. Resolution hence will be in line with both the current styleguide (don't create different entries for insignificant name variations...) and ArtistIntent