Dear PCCLIST readers, John Hostage wrote, "I don't particularly like the idea of using (Pseudonym) because it's a characteristic of the name rather than the person or identity." But that's what a name authority record is about: a name, rather than a person or identity. NARs can document information about all three concepts, but what is being established is a heading, and the heading is based on the name. Historically, we've had problems with that, in particular because an undifferentiated NAR is about a heading based on a name shared by multiple persons/identities. I'm in favor of qualifiers whenever they will help a catalog user. For example, I wish that Charlie Chan had a name authority record. Actually there is one (no 98047732) but it doesn't refer to the fictional character referred to in Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Chan. Instead, we have sh 93005499 Chan, Charlie (Fictitious character). WorldCat has seven cases of the unqualified form used as a subject heading - not many, but enough to illustrate the point. Sincerely - Ian Ian Fairclough Cataloging and Metadata Librarian George Mason University 703-993-2938 [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>