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Why does a leading 'The' sometimes get removed or added to an artist name when I'm editing/adding an event?
@songkick trying to add a concert for the band 'Girls' but after clicking preview it keeps changing to 'The Girls' which is wrong.
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This is due to the fact that currently, there's no way to differentiate between two artists with the same name (the ‘the’ is superfluous and makes no difference to the artist entry in our database). Artist disambiguation is a problem we hope to deal with in the future. In the meantime, the two artists will have to share the same artist page. We know it sucks but we hope to solve it soon!
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Inappropriate?This is due to the fact that currently, there's no way to differentiate between two artists with the same name (the ‘the’ is superfluous and makes no difference to the artist entry in our database). Artist disambiguation is a problem we hope to deal with in the future. In the meantime, the two artists will have to share the same artist page. We know it sucks but we hope to solve it soon!
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Inappropriate?Hey RapeJesus,
That's actually an annoying case of us having two exact duplicate artists - it's something that we're aware of and we plan to fix it soon!
Thanks for flagging it up though :) -
Inappropriate?The following profile combines events from two bands, Constellations (Denver band?) and THE Constellations (Atlanta band):
http://www.songkick.com/artists/3679-...
I’m frustrated
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Inappropriate?Hey Zack as I said in my initial response above - that's something that we're aware of and intend on fixing at some point in the future, we can't give you an exact timeframe just yet though.
In the meantime, the two artists will have to share the same artist page. Sorry about that.
Let me know if you have any other questions.
Thanks!
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Inappropriate?Yes, I knew that this was an Engineering problem for the automated part of separating artists with the same names, which you were working on. However, I figured this was something that could be manually separated, if found.
Oh well. Thx.
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