# Help Suggest Examples for our updated \[Work-in-Progress\] Author-page user-documentation page!
**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/help-suggest-examples-for-our-updated-work-in-progress-author-page-user-documentation-page/753921
**Category:** BookBrainz
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**Created:** [April 9, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/help-suggest-examples-for-our-updated-work-in-progress-author-page-user-documentation-page/753921 "2025-04-09T15:27:58Z")
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### Author:  [@ApeKattQuest\_MonkeyPython](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/ApeKattQuest_MonkeyPython)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2025, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/help-suggest-examples-for-our-updated-work-in-progress-author-page-user-documentation-page/753921/1 "2025-04-09T15:27:58Z")
hi!
StyleMonkey ApekattQuest here!
We’ve been working on updating the [user documentation](https://bookbrainz-user-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#style/entities/author/) behind the scenes quite a lot!
Back in February I and @mr_monkey set up a roadmap on how to tackle improving the user-docs, we’ve added stub-pages for each entity and we decided on a new theme that makes everything look a lot clearer!
I’ve been working on each page and the Author page has come to the point where we’d like suggestions for examples to clarify bits in the doc:
Without further ado we are looking for:
- Examples of groups or collectives of authors
- Examples of Personas, specifically those not just Pen Names, but which are also characters in a book.
- Examples of Pen Names, this is for things that should be Author Credits & aliases.
- Examples of people who exist in the database but are not writers, eg. photographers, pencillers, etc
- Examples of Author Credits that differs from the Author’s name
We’d also like examples of anything you think we _should_ have examples of. Read the current page and suggests examples _you_ think will help explain points better!
(note, this page is a **Work in Progress!!** That means that the latter bit here might be a bit wobbly and confusing, you can just ignore any part that looks unfinished or confusing for now :D)
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### Author:  [@jwillikers](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/jwillikers)
#### Post date: [April 9, 2025, 4:27pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/help-suggest-examples-for-our-updated-work-in-progress-author-page-user-documentation-page/753921/2 "2025-04-09T16:27:41Z")
[Oliver Wyman](https://bookbrainz.org/author/be52441a-1682-4c71-a72d-3f8f4e7147ef) is a narrator that uses the pseudonym “Cliff Kirk” for material with mature content, like [Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, Vol. 1](https://bookbrainz.org/edition/fdcddf55-e12f-4aee-a641-9f30ed2c67c0).
English translations of Japanese literature will often have an official name using the Japanese script that differs from the name credited on an English release. See [The Apothecary Diaries, Volume 1](https://bookbrainz.org/edition/d73554df-e591-42fa-9a00-0266d7f8dcfa) for an example where the author and illustrator are credited using the romanized versions of their names.
I have plenty of examples of non-author credits:
- [Taylor Engel](https://bookbrainz.org/author/9b76929e-9967-49ed-a838-e1e23464f00f) - translator
- [Clay Gardner](https://bookbrainz.org/author/a45ce3bf-0208-4745-85dc-d395e37a4772) - graphic designer
- [Koichi](https://bookbrainz.org/author/ff064e19-8dfd-473f-99d8-1f0ecbbbdd1d) - photographer
- [Jennifer LeBlanc](https://bookbrainz.org/author/68cc3e13-d796-44db-bdcf-61251ce92aff) - editor
- [Abigail Blackman](https://bookbrainz.org/author/6a41c5d8-96fa-475a-8795-769ac22cf8b4) - letterer
- [Dayna Abel](https://bookbrainz.org/author/5eb369d9-5a73-4e02-a8a5-e43db8b7553e) - proofreader
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### Author:  [@indy133](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/indy133)
#### Post date: [April 13, 2025, 6:41am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/help-suggest-examples-for-our-updated-work-in-progress-author-page-user-documentation-page/753921/3 "2025-04-13T06:41:56Z")
Example for a group pseudonym: [Ellery Queen (Author) – BookBrainz](https://bookbrainz.org/author/a2532a57-11fa-43d4-aa5d-c2892a2d0320)
Example for a writing team: [Sjöwall/Wahlöö (Author) – BookBrainz](https://bookbrainz.org/author/b3da6047-0b62-494f-b093-10b3fc20ae7f)
Example for a design team: [Buchholz / Hinsch / Hensinger (Author) – BookBrainz](https://bookbrainz.org/author/abf14cdb-e8a6-4bfc-8e41-9f37e1056991)
Example for a famous pen name: Robert Galbraith, the alias of [J. K. Rowling (Author) – BookBrainz](https://bookbrainz.org/author/e5c4e68b-bfce-4c77-9ca2-0f0a2d4d09f0)
Example for a famous photographer:
[Annie Leibovitz (Author) – BookBrainz](https://bookbrainz.org/author/f2957c29-8257-4d2d-aac2-500ec84c2478)
Example for an editor: [Mary Hottinger (Author) – BookBrainz](https://bookbrainz.org/author/a050ef38-ccc5-4028-8c5b-a8e7bc243165)
Name differences: Diane DiPrima vs. Diane di Prima / Franz Werneke vs. Prof. Dr. Franz Werneke / journalist abbreviations: eg lin for Christoph Lindemann
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### Author:  [@reosarevok](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/reosarevok)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2025, 1:47pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/help-suggest-examples-for-our-updated-work-in-progress-author-page-user-documentation-page/753921/4 "2025-04-24T13:47:15Z")
> [@ApeKattQuest\_MonkeyPython](#):
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> - Examples of groups or collectives of authors
[James S. A. Corey](https://bookbrainz.org/author/c5c71242-f54c-4327-9510-a81064a9a852) is a “pen name” which is actually a collective of two writers and their main works (the Expanse series) are pretty well known.
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### Author:  [@blackteadarkmatter](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/blackteadarkmatter)
#### Post date: [May 4, 2025, 3:39am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/help-suggest-examples-for-our-updated-work-in-progress-author-page-user-documentation-page/753921/5 "2025-05-04T03:39:39Z")
> [@ApeKattQuest\_MonkeyPython](#):
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> Examples of Personas, specifically those not just Pen Names, but which are also characters in a book.
An example I remember was mentioned was Newt Scamander, as the book _Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them_ is published as written by him (a character), not J.K. Rowling, who actually wrote it.
Are there examples other you’re still looking for?
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### Author:  [@mr\_monkey](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/mr_monkey)
#### Post date: [May 14, 2025, 10:49am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/help-suggest-examples-for-our-updated-work-in-progress-author-page-user-documentation-page/753921/6 "2025-05-14T10:49:38Z")
I had a similar example with ‘A Series of Unfortunate Events’, supposedly written by “Lemony Snicket” who appears as the narrator of the book series, but really a persona of Daniel Handler.