Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-4651179-20180806025410/@comment-3048593-20181015004518

AnnabellRice wrote: KalKent wrote: So what is our official stance on pages of staff and characters based on real people, and their pseudonyms? Like all versions of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby we have them as those, instead of Stanley Lieberman and Jacob Kurtzberg respectively; but all versions of Mark Twain we have them as Samuel Clemens. I believe the official stance is that either their real name or their most well-known name is now acceptable per the discussion that began with a question about clones. For characters based on real people, who are more well-known by their pseudonyms, that we have pages for, the first ones that come to my mind are Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson (Earth-616)), Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens (Earth-1218)), and George Orwell (Eric Blair (Earth-616)). And most recently I noticed a move tag added to the page Marilyn Monroe (Earth-616).

Although the last one I can give a pass on moving, since the real life person wasn't a writer who contributed to anything we cover on our database. Same with Eric Blair since Marvel hasn't adapted anything he wrote. But I do think writers who originally created work later covered by Marvel, should be listed by their most famous names. Like with Mark Twain, who originally wrote 'Tom Sawyer' which was adapted in.