Category:Personal Association Relationship Class

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Official Documentation: Advanced Relationships
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Description

Advanced relationships used to record personal, non-musical associations between artists, generally family or romantic relationships.

Guidelines

MusicBrainz does not exist to capture all the aspects of the personal life of artists. Though possible, creating artist entries that would exist solely to represent the family trees or romantic history of an artist is not part of MusicBrainz' mission.

A person should not be added to the database only to allow a link to indicate that they went out with, were married to, or were related to an artist.

The only exception to this guideline occurs when a non-musical person can be connected to two or more artists, allowing those artists to indirectly be linked together.

While proposals for new advanced relationships are always welcomed by the Style Council, be forewarned that proposals which would extend this relationship class to allow tracking finer-grained personal details will face a greater degree of scrutiny.

Kinship

Many forms of kinship exist. However, MusicBrainz does not exist to detail most kinship details. When creating links between artists with relationship types in this class and dealing with more complex forms of kinship, the following definitions of relationship-worthy kinship apply:

Adoption
Adoptive parents and siblings should be treated as if they were birth parents and siblings. The annotation can be used to store the details of the adoption.
Disownment
Disownment should not be detailed using the relationship types of this relationship class. Instead, use the annotation to store this type of information.
Divorce
Divorce ends only the Parent Relationship Type. It does not end the Sibling Relationship Type.
Step-relations
Kinship created when one related parent marries an unrelated parent, should be described using the Step Kinship Relationship Attribute.
Half-relations and ¾ relations
Kinship created when two siblings share only one common parent should be described using the Half Kinship Relationship Attribute.
Relations-in-law, godparents and godsibs, fraternal relations, fictive kinship, foster parents and siblings, gang affiliation, lay brothers, religious brotherhood and sisterhood, milk parents and siblings, surrogate parents, and all other unmentioned forms of kinship
These types of kinship should not be detailed using the relationship types of this relationship class. Instead, the annotation may be used to store this type of information.

Relationship Inheritence

Relationships linking two artists with any relationship type from this relationship class should only be assumed to exist if they are explicitly defined, linking two artists with a particular relationship type. No relationships of this relationship class should be inferred to exist based solely upon other existing relationship linkages.

Relationship Types for this Class





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