fixes #4064: Artist new page giving false rejection messages

app/helpers/artists_helper.rb

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ module ArtistsHelper
     if artist
       link_to(artist.name, artist_path(artist))
     else
-      link_to(name, new_artist_path(:name => name)) + " " + content_tag("span", "*", :class => "new-artist", :title => "No artist with this name currently exists.")
+      link_to(name, new_artist_path(artist: {name: name})) + " " + content_tag("span", "*", :class => "new-artist", :title => "No artist with this name currently exists.")
     end
   end
 

app/models/artist.rb

@@ -329,7 +329,9 @@ class Artist < ApplicationRecord
         artist = Artist.new(params)
       end
 
-      artist.tap(&:validate) # run before_validation callbacks to normalize the names
+      artist.normalize_name
+      artist.normalize_other_names
+      artist
     end
   end