GCD Official Name

To determine what creator name should be used as the GCD Official Name, the following was adopted by vote of December 1, 2012:

1. If the person is recorded in the current Who's Who, use that name.
2. If the person is not recorded in the current Who's Who, but is recorded at Lambiek, use that name.
3. If the person is not recorded in either the current Who's Who or at Lambiek, but has a listing in Wikipedia, use the main listing name that corresponds to the language in which the creator's works are most often published, as it appears there.
4. If the person is not recorded in any of the above-mentioned sources, further rules shall be determined.

If it is determined that the Official Name should be changed, add the new name, select the 'is offical name' and unselect the 'Is official name' for the old Official name.

• Note: You cannot delete a name from a creator record if that name is linked to a credit. The change set will error out during approval.

We do not have an official method of determining when the Official Name should be changed. The current ad hoc method is to post the request for the change to the GCD main mailing list ([email protected]) and see if there is general agreement to proceed with the change.

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Policy Votes Affecting This Topic

http://www.comics.org/voting/ballot/157/ - 2012-12-01

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