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"Elvis vs. JXL" vs. VersusStyle

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There's a style issue that's caused some difference of opinion between a few other editors and I, and it seems like the kind of thing that should be discussed here.

Here are pertinent facts:
(1) An artist named Jackal XL has a popular remix of Elvis Presley's "A Little Less Conversation" that is promoted under the name "Elvis vs. JXL".
(2) An artist entry for "Elvis vs. JXL" currently exists and has most if not all instances of this remix credited to that name.
(3) An official style guideline, VersusStyle, specifies that when an artist name is a "vs." name and it "means one artist is remixing another, use the original artist as the ArtistName, and put the remixer into the track title as you would with other remixes, following the RemixStyle."

From my standpoint, it seems clear that VersusStyle applies here, meaning that the track should be treated (and entered into the database) as if Elvis Presley was the artist and Jackal XL the remixer.

But according to other editors, since the original single has "Elvis vs. JXL" emblazoned on the cover and the remixes are credited to "Elvis vs. JXL", then that constitutes artist intent, thus warranting leaving Elvis vs. JXL as a distinct artist entry.

This leaves me confused.  On the one hand, I recognize the "Elvis vs. JXL" on the single and in other on-line databases.  On the other hand, it seems to me that those who wrote and agreed on VersusStyle were trying to avoid having "vs." artists in the database as much as possible, and that this is exactly the kind of case they had in mind when they agreed on it.

So is it better to leave "Elvis vs. JXL" as it is, or not?

If so, is it something that could (or should) be codified on the ArtistIntent page as an acceptable exception?

--Larry (a.k.a. discHead)

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