To solve that specific problem of multiple versions of the same person, I believe you can “merge artists” by selecting the two in the Artists screen and clicking on the merge button. There are a few threads on this, here’s one I found. It is in the “riskier” moves, because I think you don’t get the superset of information and one has to be the “parent” so all the Artist metadata flows through. It’s undoable, so I don’t mean “risky” in that you can permanently lose data, but rather that if you get it backwards things can look really bad. I think this is one of those under-advertised features because it requires some care. I’ve only done it a couple of times and found it fiddly but worth it. Now that I’ve finished with it, I’ve completely forgotten about how to do it.
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