Forum:Artists and aliases

Many artists have different aliases. I think every event should be category linked to the specific alias used, which in turn can then be linked to the artist's real name/primary identity.

For example, Richard D. James might have a hierarchy like this:
 * Category: Richard D. James
 * Category: Aphex Twin
 * Aphex Twin - 2000-01-01 - All Next Tuesday's AA Meetings
 * Aphex Twin - 2000-02-02 - The Warp Janitor's Ball
 * Category: AFX
 * AFX - 2000-03-03 - Rephlex Party

... etc. 12.168.77.2 19:38, 21 November 2006 (UTC)

I feel this would create unnecessarily many different categories, and each article is already named after what alias the artist used for that performance. In the case of RDJ, is there really any clear difference between performances where he performs as "Aphex Twin" vs the ones where he performs as "AFX", "DJ Smojphace" etc.?

I think it would just make the wiki less easy to use, instead of more.

RMilding 21:17, 21 November 2006 (UTC)


 * Well, not having ever seen or heard a live RDJ performance, I don't know, but I know at least the releases by alias tend to be in different styles. Weren't the DJ Smojphace gigs almost all experimental noise, for example? 12.168.77.2 15:15, 22 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm not sure if I have heard any bootlegs where he performs under any alias except Aphex Twin, but nevertheless I feel that it would add an unnecessary amount of categories, and just make it more difficult to get a good view of available live shows. But, if an artist is shown to have radically different styles under different aliases, we could go with sub-categories, nothing is set in stone, it's just a bit of mucking around with the categories. --RMilding 22:04, 22 November 2006 (UTC)