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Sunday 16 September 2018 - 08:37:46


Hello Spirit of Metal. I have sent several emails about this during the last year but nothing seems to get done. So I'm hoping to get an answer or a resolution for this here.

I try to manage and update my own band's and artist pages as best as possible on Spirit of Metal. It's important that the information is documented properly.

However, because of different people adding information, I noticed that there were 4 different Artist pages for myself, all including different bits of credits and information. This was last year and I reported it and asked for merging of information. A moderator then moved the information from 4 Artist pages onto 2 Artist pages, but did not delete any of the pages. So the resulting dilemma is now that there are 2 empty Artist pages and 2 other Artist pages with different credits and information. I don't know why the moderator could not merge everything into 1 Artist page and then delete the 3 duplicates.

Here are the 4 pages:

https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/en/artist/Alexandre_Julien/123025

https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/en/artist/Julien_Alexandre/2754

https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/en/artist/Alexandre_Julien/501377

https://www.spirit-of-metal.com/en/artist/Alexandre_Julien_(aka_Virkelix)/92784

Just to make this clear, I am the only musician named Alexandre Julien and the only one with credits  on Spirit of Metal, so those duplicate entries are definitely not for other people of the same name. As I previously mentioned, they each had a different credit of mine.

Not only is it frustating thay my information is split up on different pages, but it also makes it confusing and impossible to properly add more credits to the database. When I try to add myself as a Producer for albums that don't have that information, a dropdown of 4 choices come up and there's no way to tell which one is the right one. I took a printscreen:
https://prnt.sc/kuxtr4

I already tried sending emails but the problem is still there. What can be done about this?