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Old Mar 2, 2018, 12:58 AM
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I'm aware that ariola is no longer a company. But the same is true of SME Records, Epic, Ki/oon etc.. yet they all continue to be linked as publishers. Why should ariola be the odd one out? I'm fine with listing ariola as an imprint post-2014 but if we are going to do that I think it should be consistent with other labels under Sony Music Labels.
"all" shouldn't be linked as publishers, you didn't get my point about ariola
if ariola mustn't be linked as a publisher, it means the rest mustn't be linked as a publisher either
to use a math expression, you made 10 +1 whereas you should make 1 +10

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Once again, other equivalent cases of "labels" in the Sony umbrella are linked as publishers, not imprints - I don't see why these should be different. See https://vgmdb.net/org/1267, https://vgmdb.net/org/712, https://vgmdb.net/org/1390 etc
there is a thing that you must understand, because of the shitty system of labels/manuf of vgmdb some stuff are badly made
during a long moment the only way to link a label (imprint) and display on album page was to link it as a publisher (honestly I don't remember if that problem got resolved since I'm no more trusted for 2 years)
if that problem is resolved, so all labels should be linked as imprint

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Isn't Sony Music Records (minus the Inc.) the parent label of gr8! Records, Sony Records, MASTERSIX etc.. even after 2014? How exactly is it "nothing"? The twitter account of Sony Music Records implies that Sony Records, gr8! records, MASTERSIX FOUNDATION, N46Div., K46Div. and Around the World are their current imprints, which are usually linked as publishers on vgmdb (see above). But since these releases are lacking a specific imprint it makes sense to me to link the parent label as a "publisher".
sony music records inc was a record company that became sony music labels inc
smr was the copyrights holder as the time of smr inc, and is still after smr inc became sml inc
but smr isn't a label, maybe I'd have had to specify, I used smr as publisher for convenience (but normally it's smr inc that should be showed, not smr)

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I mostly see labels linked as publisher on vgmdb rather than the manufacturer or record company.
for convience with the system (see above)

to sum up, all "publisher" (manuf) links that are "imprints" (labels) should be linked as imprint, not as publisher
and normally publishers should be linked in their company name like distro (it's more convenient for people to continue as usually)
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