[SOLVED] What to do with a cover? Now there is a duplicate song text.

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<a href="/en/translator/lettin" class="userpopupinfo" rel="user1214455">lettin <div class="author_icon" title="Page author" ></div></a>
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A few days ago I added a song text performed by d'Artagnan:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/dartagnan-was-wollen-wir-trinken-lyrics.html
and the translation of it:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/was-wollen-wir-trinken-ko-dzersim.html

Now I see it is actually a cover of:
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/was-wollen-wir-trinken-lyrics.html
performed by Bots.

It's not good that there is now a duplicate song text. But how can it be made so that both groups point to this one song text? And my translation by all means can be seen on d'Artagnan's page?

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It honestly depends on the cover. Some covers that are in different languages from the original should (and are) categorised as being separate songs, as the lyrics are completely different.

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<a href="/en/translator/fary" class="userpopupinfo" rel="user1097876">Fary <div class="moderator_icon" title="Moderatore" ></div></a>
Joined: 18.11.2011

As was already mentioned, it's fine to add cover versions. I added a mention of d'Artagnan in Bots' page so that the pages are linked.

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<a href="/en/translator/aldefina" class="userpopupinfo" rel="user1152070">Aldefina </a>
Joined: 16.01.2013

Some time ago we decided that covers should be accepted. They won't be merged anymore, as it was done earlier. The only problem is that if you want to submit a translation it has to be different than the one of the other version, so it's the same as if covers were merged with the original.