Editors and staff now have access to a new field for artist profiles: Variations of artist names. It's for alternate spellings, abbreviations, acronyms, etc. of the display name (
not for aliases that do not resemble the display name). Here's how it's used:
It's mostly for organizational and aesthetic purposes, since name variations will not be listed after album titles in the discography as aliases. Here's a comparison of the discography listing:
before and
after. Notice that the "Nihon Falcom", etc aliases are still kept for display.
Or just check the
artist page itself.
Additionally, a bug with the artist edit history code was fixed in the process (it always registered an edit for the artist type field, whether or not it was actually changed)