Mark Gillespie disambiguation needed

[andybob (Andrew Cox)]

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Roon has grouped two artists named Mark Gillespie.
The Australian artist who released Only Human and Sweet Nothing and another Artist.

Have you made any edits to this content in Roon?

No.

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Description of the issue

The issue is that this hasn’t been fixed since 2015.

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Two musicians - Mark Gillespie

There are two musicians named Mark Gillespie The first (who is in Roon) was born 17 November 1970 in the UK and was in Maines Brothers Band. The second is Australian. This is the Discogs info for the Aztec re-issue of his album “Only Human”: Roon currently incorrectly attributes that album to the first Mark Gillespie.

[jamie]

Hey @andybob

Sorry for the delayed response here, we thank you for bringing this to our attention.

These kind of equivalence issues are common, unfortunately. When artists with similar names (as is the case here) lack enough rich metadata content to trigger disambiguation they are often erroneously identified as the same person.

We’ll take a look at how this information is reflected on our metadata providers’ side and see what we can do. Please understand that we can’t make any promises regarding a timeline for corrections when coordinating with our metadata providers. Thanks