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https://musicbrainz.org/relationship/7231dcac-d2dc-4b4a-b218-ecea4123a4cd
> Indicates an artist (generally a composer) this work was previously attributed to, but who is currently confirmed (or very strongly suspected) not to be the real author.
It seems like this relationship was designed to be used for false credits.
However, some editors use this relationship to store name variations of the writers on a Work where the names are kept separate per https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Style/Artist#Performance_names_and_legal_names. That doesn't seem correct, and it seems like it's necessary to explicitly say so. (If that actually is a valid usage of the relationship, then the description of the relationship should be updated anyway.)
[STYLE-1867] Improve description/guidelines for "previous attribution" relationship
It's not correct, and the description is already pretty explicit. I don't know how that could be read from the existing description, so I'm not sure changing it will help.
As mentioned above, I'm not sure whether the relationship guideline being amended would help this at all. If you see this happening again, just point them to the guideline / point the edit to me directly, please.