Indeed. but for anyone who doesn't have knowledge of site practice will just go by the guidance given... so inclusion as a pseudonym helps us catch these inthe main discography net, then deal with the details later if necessary.
Pragmatism gets the job done.
Broad strokes, general points of concurrence, then details later.
When I came back to site early last year, we had tens of thousands of CDs to be modded, and structure for this world was almost entirely absent.... now only a queue of two and a half thousand to bash through, before phase two can begin... the fine details.
Big pile of mess > sort generally into smaller piles of mess > sort through smaller piles of mess > polish :)
it's perhaps further complicated by his apparently actually being known by his friends as ''jj'', ''j-j'', ''JJ'' or ''J-J'' - which being unclear, as it's spoken - though not spelled - as ''jayjay''°; but site practice laid down by mods has been that even where there is clearly no space between an author, artist or composer's initials, we should enter one space.
(° - source: rocky frisco, ex-afper and proud owner of the signed mini, ''the luggage'', and incidentally a musician who played in j. j. cale's band.)
The un-spaced initials rendering of his name is included as a pseudonym of the spaced version, and therefore appears in the "correct" version's discography / listings, and there is already a link to that correct discography from the head of the "Incorrectly" rendered name page / discography.
I have altered the other album rendering to the "correct" version simply because it squares up with other issues of that album...
...The guidance in entering CD details does not always square with other ideas we have on site:
In this instance, entering as on label may not square with the idea of spacing, a natural "correct way of entering", which people naturally (See what I did there? :) do, and which, by and large, is preferable, so that the entries we make based on what's in hand is legible, intelligible, and searchable for the system.
It's why the system (in some cases - yet unfathomably, not others :( Capitalises the first letters of names / words, and why we ask for certain standards for the entry, even if not present on the item itself... sometimes the details get very stylised or creative for design or artwork purposes, but which are of no use whatsoever to us making consistent listings... we have to evaluate each item separately, and bring it down to simple judgement calls sometimes.
You will notice, therefore, having navigated from he artist name here, through to the main J. J. Cale listing, that there is a couple of items for JJ Cale and Eric Clapton...
(No spacing, or even dots after initials anywhere on the item - disc, artwork, nothing)
...This is, therefore, correctly entered as per guidance: "As on disc / item", but has to be added to main listing by the simple addition of a pseudonym to main artist listing, else it does not appear in that discography.
This is a simple thing to do, and in this case, it is so.
There are a few more which admittedly need looking at (B. B. King, and iterations thereof, which give me the horrors! - but Will be looked at in time).
I can't make such a call with this item as there are no images yet on which to base that judgement.