R&S Example page/Use canonical artist name for uploaded images?

Should the artist name for upload images be normalized? For example, I have a publication that credits which is short for. Which version of the name should I enter in the artist= line for the Cover Image Data templates? For now I entered it as A. Magee on the theory it's easier to sweep through and substitute the canonical name than to restore the stated name. It terms of filing images in categories it makes sense to me that I would have normalized this to Alan Magee. --Marc Kupper|talk 03:27, 16 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I just ran across Category:Artist:Ken W. Kelly Images which includes a note "See also Category:Artist:Ken Kelly Images" implying people enter names as stated. --Marc Kupper|talk 03:49, 16 August 2009 (UTC)
 * When doing image uploads it is often easier to simply copy & paste the artist name from the pub, and an editor may not know the canonical artist name -- as we don't usually create variants of coverart records, there is no pressing need to know. When I have found two or more artist categories that are pretty clearly for the same artist, i have put in "see also" links, figuring that if i normalized one category out of existence it would soon be recreated. We currently have 5000 images on file not linked to wiki artist categories. Some of those are because the artist isn't known, but many because the images were entered with C rather than C3 or CID1.