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 NotAProghead wrote:

^ Thanks, David, I've corrected names in the bio and changed the year of the debut album's digital version.
As for dividing New Name / ex Old Name bands' pages, I still strongly against it because in my opinion it brings more confusion than we have now. Probably I don't completely understand your idea, but I feel it's the last thing in life I'd like to be a part of. 
Additionally, in my opinion to start this "revolution", admins' request would be necessary. Yes, technically we can do it, but ethically it's the "admins' case".
 I think it might also be worth adding in that there is the February 21st 2020 digital re-release of the debut album as The view Inside (on Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music etc, but not included on Discogs at the moment) with 11 tracks instead of 12, which is the one that our tracklist and musicians line up is based on.
So maybe it should read:

Digital album (2019, as BRIAND BOURSIN ROHR)
Digital album (2020, as THE VIEW INSIDE)

This, of course, once again brings into confusion the year when the name change actually occurred, so I'd also be tempted to edit that opening line of the biography to say: "Formed as BRIAND BOURSIN ROHR in 2019, subsequently changed name to THE VIEW INSIDE" - and leave it at that!

The line below in the biography really needs to be changed too, since when I wrote the original submission for this artist several weeks ago, I had not really looked thoroughly at all the Discogs releases, and had based my resumé of the band's history on the Bandcamp date for release of their debut album:

Line 7-8: The arrival of 'The View Inside' in February 2020 marked his debut as a full fledged lead singer (date needs changing to June 2019).

This really has been a difficult artist to resolve, but I think once those changes are done we'll be more or less there!

E&O Team: Thanks, David, done. Hope I missed nothing.

As for your thoughts regarding my suggestion regarding bands who've changed names in general, I hear you loud and clear, but if you wanted to get a feel for how it would work, just create a temporary entry for Briand Boursin Rohr using a spare unused artist page (previous deletion) with this text written there: BRIAND BOURSIN ROHR was the band name previously used by THE VIEW INSIDE when they were formed in 2019. You can always ask admins to delete the page again if you don't like the way it works. 

And that's all you would need to include there. This 'placeholder' entry would then show up in the alphabetical list of all the artists that have been added to the site, and anyone finding it in the list and visiting the page would be redirected via the hyperlink to the current one for The View Inside, where all the relevant information is available. Same would apply to any artist that has changed their name at some point if a similar new page was created for them under their old name.

I think it would be a dead simple modification to the site really, and if it was applied to all the artists that have changed their name at some point, it would do away with the need for all these 'New Name / ex Old Name' page headings that we have. Admins would need to be consulted about something like this for sure, but if it's the last thing in life you'd like to be a part of, then I fully understand where you're coming from. Your job here is tough enough as it is lol!

Edit: I think the existence of a separate page for Briand Boursin Rohr would make Mayer a lot happier too. It would pretty much address all his comments in his chicken and egg post a few days ago! 

E&O Team: I think no need to disturb admins, I hope I can imagine how it will look. 
But once again, if we decide (I still hate the idea ) to change all New Name / ex Old Name bands, it should be universal solution for all of them (Julien, using his tool, can say how many bands).

Let's suppose some band released several albums under old name and several albums under new name. And then - lots of possible cases, like re-releasing old material under new name, making compilations etc, then some member leaves new band and decides to proceed under the old band's name. Something we can't predict is also possible. Do we need this headache? I think no.

P.S. I don't know who I "love" more - The View Inside band or Antony Kalugin with all his projects and you suggest to handle a new bunch of namechangers. Have mercy to an old man. 

Edited by NotAProghead - September 06 2023 at 15:47