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Joint pseudonyms: "Whit Masterson", "Wade Miller"

"Whit Masterson" and "Wade Miller" are two joint pseudonyms used by childhood friends and novelists Robert Allison "Bob" Wade and H. William Miller. Although IMDb's writing credit guidelines don't specifically mention how to deal with joint pseudonyms, it seems fair to say that it would be in keeping with IMDb's general principles to credit both writers under a shared attribute rather than having a single name page stand in for both of them.

As it turns out, both writers have pages on IMDb, but their credits are split up between each other and one of them is confusingly given one of the joint pseudonyms as their main name.

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0557767/ - Biographical information matches Robert Allison Wade, but confusingly listed on IMDb as "Whit Masterson"

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0588433/ - H. William Miller, filmography includes works written under pseudonym "Wade Miller", but not those written under pseudonym "Whit Masterson"

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Approving the two contributions listed above will have the effect of...

a) correcting the name for nm0557767 from "Whit Masterson" to "Robert Allison Wade", since Masterson is a joint pseudonym that does not apply to Wade as an individual person (credits will keep the attribute "as Whit Masterson" where applicable)

b) copying over the writing credits for both authors so that they each share credit for the novels they wrote together, with their respective pseudonyms preserved in the attributes

Some of the titles affected by this correction have their crews marked as "complete" which might trigger an automatic rejection or something. Please make sure these changes are approved and stuff. Thanks.

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Hello majfoalbkeopaza

I have checked the contributions, they were approved, the changes will be live in the site shortly!

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Thanks, @Fran​. I can see that the credits have been approved, but the name correction is still pending. Whether it is better to change the first author's page to his birth name ("Robert Allison Wade") or by his nickname ("Bob Wade") is a matter of discretion, but it should not remain "Whit Masterson" as that is a pen name representing both writers, not Wade as an individual.

After giving it some thought, I think the author's preferred name "Bob Wade" should be used rather than his birth name. I've submitted an additional name correction.

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@majfoalbkeopaza​ - Thank you for posting the referecen! This second submission was declined as duplicate since the previous name correction was still pending for this name page. However, the name has been corrected with the additional one instead.