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are Single not Studio Albums, sorry

why wouldn't PA change the name? 

I'll do it a bit later, it's just simple editing. 

Oh, I completely agree, and I’m glad it is recognised as being just that. I was worried simoly because of some of the transphobic comments I have seen in the forum, and that even now some people refuse to acknowledge, eg, Switched On Bach as being a Wendy Carlos album - and will only refer to the artist by her dead name for that record, as that was the name it was recorded under.

I was expecting there may have been an argument about “historical accuracy” and “whitewashing” and “airbrushing”, or similar. I’m very glad to see this has not been the case!

It is called a dead name for a reason, and the person wants it to be erased from history, as it is a part of them they never wanted. When a person changes their life in this manner, they are entitled to have literally everything regarding their dead name wiped. I have a couple of trans friends, who would be horrified at the thought that someone wanted to keep the dead name in a space where it can so easily be changed,

They have changed their birth certificates, so the official registry of births, deaths and marriages recognises only the new name, and has no record kept of the old one. In the future, if someone who did not know was doing genealogy and searching them up, they would only ever find a baby born as a girl, with the name they now go by. They have contacted their universities, and their records there have been changed, and new degrees sent out with the new name.

As soon as an actor becomes an actress, or vice versa, Netflix, Amazon and the like change all the credits on their platforms. Wikipedia removes all mention of the dead name, except for in the introductory sentence where in parentheses it will say formerly [x], and all pronouns are changed in the entry to match the current chosen pronouns.

Yes, it is impossible to change the liner notes of what is already out there, or the credits on any film that is out there. But guess what, every new edition of the release (whether it be music or film or whatever) will have removed the dead name. That’s not even a new thing. It took aroind ten years to happen, but since the ‘80s any of Carlos’s albums that had previously been released under her dead name, have been re-released as being by Wendy Carlos.

It’s even easier in this day and age, where a lot of releases are only online to stream or download, with either no physical product, or the physical release is a limited run or print-to-order, allowing re-releases to change if necessary. And if it is a release available only to stream or download, then once the dead name is gone, unless you already knew about it, you’d now never know.

A dead name is called that for a reason. There is absolutely no good reason for PA to display a dead name. Wanting to match the name credited in the original release is not a good enough reason. It really is not.

Interesting discussion, but please let's be careful before accusing people...

From an archivist point of view, NotAProghead's position would be the generally accepted one. Not out of transphobia or whatever, but just out of cataloguing principles that dictate to record the data that correspond to the artistic production at the time of its production. Name changes afterwards can - and should - be included for indexing purposes, but this shouldn't change the original reference, only complement it.

Eventual new editions of a production, should not delete references in the original catalogue descriptions, despite name changes over time or whatever. They should just be added. Deleting initial/original names would be a cataloguing error!

Thanks, done!