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Musician Pages
Musicians need their own pages and the currently used naming format for musicians is "Musician Name".

This format could potentially lead to problems when two different musicians share the same name.

For example, there could be a John Smith from the UK, and a John Smith from Alaska playing in two different bands at the same time.

However, some musicians do play in two (or more) bands at the same time and our page naming scheme should account for this.


 * Solution #1 could be to include the musician's home town so that the page name would be "John Smith-Anytown,NY,USA" or "John Smith-Sometown,South Africa", etc.
 * Solution #2 could be to simply number the artists in the way Discogs] does. This would make the page names become "John Smith (1)", "John Smith (8}, "John Smith (287)", etc.
 * Solution #3 could be to name the pages "John Smith (Band name)" then have that page redirect to a numbered "John Smith" page like in suggestion #2.

Please add more suggestions if you have them and/or put your vote below this post.

--Fritigern (talk) 21:52, 28 January 2017 (UTC)

Namespaces
Namespaces are basically prefixes to a page name. For example, Help:Todo exists in the Help namespace, my user page (User:Fritigern) exists in the User namespace, Template:Bands is in the Templates namespace, and so forth.

Currently, bands, labels, albums, etc do not live in a certain name space, although it can be argued that, for easier cataloging, each kind of page should be placed in their own name space.

Let's record the pros and cons of placing everything in their own namespace.

PROS :


 * A band page would be named "Band:Band Name". Examples; "Band:The Crucified", "Band:Blah", "Band:The Lead", etc. The same would go for albums, labels, musicians, and so forth.

CONS :


 * Moving all currently existing pages into their own namespace would be a large task and may take weeks or months to complete.

Please add more pros and cons as you think of them.

Also, please add your thoughts below this topic.

--Fritigern (talk) 23:40, 28 January 2017 (UTC)