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  19th Jan 2018, 3:29 PM#1  REPORT  
Orbiting Cat

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Pen names are when an author writes a book under a different name. We're testing support for this on Book World. Here's an example:

http://www.45worlds.com/book/title/ufo

When adding a book, you should always use the author's real name eg J.K Rowling. There's a new option to include the pen name eg Robert Galbraith; this is displayed on the book and when viewing the author's bibliography.

You can click the pen name to see all the books written under that pen name.

If two different authors use the same pen name (not sure if this has ever happened) then [Disambiguation Brackets] can be used so that the correct books are grouped together.

Pen names can be added to existing books using "Add Missing Info". If an existing book on 45worlds has the author name and pen name mixed up then please request it to be corrected using the "Make Correction" link.

Do please add books using a single canonical version of an author's name, even if there is a variation of the name on the book cover. The name could be that which the author is best known, or how the author is referred to on Wikipedia, eg D. H. Lawrence, William Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood. Only use the "Pen Name" feature when the author is using a completely different name. This is a guideline which will apply to the vast majority of books, but exceptions are always allowed on 45worlds.


  25th Jan 2018, 9:54 PM#2  REPORT  
nboldock

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Nice addition. Stephen King / Richard Bachman is the obvious one that springs to mind.


  25th Jan 2018, 10:31 PM#3  REPORT  
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