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KingSpooky
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PostPosted: Thu Nov 04, 2021 6:49 am 
 

Also, when a band doesn't have the name that they changed to or from in the alternate spelling field, and then decide to digitally release their material under the new name (happens often), submissions for the new name that shouldn't be accepted because there are no new releases - only re-issues - don't get caught as a duplicate entry and then have to be deleted and posted about on the forum. Then there is the lost time of moderators reassessing a band that's already on the site.

Note: the reason for importance of the rule list in the first post here to be edited is that it isn't only accessible to people who come across it while browsing the forum, but is hyperlinked when any band on the site is being edited:
https://imgur.com/a/0ftjLCj

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KingSpooky
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PostPosted: Tue May 03, 2022 5:45 pm 
 

A few possibly little-known facts about the alternate spelling field:
- example AlternateSpelling will show up as a result for the search Alternate Spelling (capital letter in the middle of a word with no spaces makes searching with a space possible)
- example Alive and Awaken will show up as a search result for Alive & Awaken (& is searchable by the word 'and' - however, and isn't searchable by '&')
- example B.N.M. will not show up as a result for the search: BNM, but searching B.N.M. will show the result BNM

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