On Sun, Aug 11, 2013 at 1:09 AM, Luca Martinelli <martinelliluca@gmail.com> wrote:

2013/7/31 Andrew Gray <andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk>:

> Hi Nicholas,
>
> a) Yes, it is about the person and the aliases together. As a general
> rule, it's one article per person, not per name.
>
> b) Different names is a quirk of the Wikipedia background - these
> default to the title of the Wikipedia article on that person, and
> there's no agreement on whether to put the article under the person or
> the more famous pseudonym.

FYI, there is now a property for pseudonyms (
http://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P742 ).

Is it intentional to restrict the definition to personal pseudonyms? That doesn't cover all uses of them For example, there are house pseudonyms used by publishing houses which are associated with a series and the publishing house contracts with writers to write effectively anonymously (although it's often known who they are).

Another example of a relatively well known collective pseudonym is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Bourbaki There's a whole category of them here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Collective_pseudonyms

Tom