Collaborative aliases - how to treat?

BookBrainz
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I have found two collaborative pen name author credits:

Pittacus Lore: https://bookbrainz.org/author/639e53b5-efb1-493b-ad13-9d629f932413
James S. A. Corey: https://bookbrainz.org/author/c5c71242-f54c-4327-9510-a81064a9a852

They are listed with the Type as “Group”.

I don’t know if this is correct, or whether these names should only be listed as Aliases in the respective individual’s author credit.

There is also Erin Hunter: https://bookbrainz.org/author/23dbe270-f61e-4a41-abfe-da5938f0cd27
This credit treats the individuals as aliases and has a pen name relationship to one of the writers: Inbali Iserles

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Well I think, there is no better way to do this. This was common practise for a lot of pulp magazines and in many cases we won’t be able to find out the correct author behind these group aliases.

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That is certainly true of Pittacus Lore. Having given this some thought, I agree there is no better way.

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