Relationship Type "Parent"
Link Phrases
artist is the parent of artist
artist is the child of artist
Description
This relationship relates two musicians together where one is the parent of the other. This is only intended for linking together artists who are in the database anyway - please don't add people to the database just so that you can use them in a "is the parent of" relationship. This will avoid clogging up the database with lots of information that isn't music-related.
This AdvancedRelationshipType for ArtistArtistRelationships is part of the PersonalAssociationRelationshipClass.
Relationship Attributes
None are appropriate.
Examples
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Bob Marley is the parent of Ziggy Marley.
Discussion
There are some unusual classes of parents. In some cases these could result in someone having more than two parents, which might look weird unless we can distinguish them on the website somehow, using an attribute or something:
An attribute to indicate a stepchild would fall into this category as well (
Max Cavalera vs. Richie Cavalera) -- Prodoc 2007-02-05 15:23:29 Adopted parent
Biological parent
Surrogate mother
The phrasing "is the parent of" is weird, and should probably be "is a parent of". As of right now people pretty much always have more than one...
Parentage of Bands
Smile is a band that broke up and later reformed (more or less) as Queen. So far, the consensus appears to be heading towards not counting this as a parent/child relationship. -- MatthewExon
Another example is here and for now it's proposed to be solved as an alias: Marillion did one of their first gig ever as "Skyline Drifters". In this case we probably will not have any album with that name.
Again here three of five Marillion member did a spin-off tour as "Los Trios Marillos " without disbanding original band: probably it's cleaner to menage this with AR between members.
Another way could be to use PerformanceName but PerformanceNameStyle says "Performance names should not be used for bands" at the very start. -- ClutchEr2
We're certainly free to change that aspect of PerformanceNameStyle if it needs changing. PerformanceNameRelationshipType does seem like the most appropriate way to do this to me; at least when there's no lineup change at the same time. --MatthewExon
This is an OpenStyleIssue. See also the discussion on LinkingDifferentArtistNames.