Editing Pseudonym (section)

==Scope==
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Pseudonyms include [[stage name]]s, [[User (computing)|user names]], [[ring name]]s, [[pen name]]s, aliases, [[superhero]] or villain identities and code names, gamertags, and [[regnal name]]s of emperors, popes, and other monarchs. In some cases, it may also include [[nickname]]s. Historically, they have sometimes taken the form of [[anagram]]s, Graecisms, and [[Latinisation (literature)|Latinisations]].<ref>Peschke (2006, vii).</ref>

Pseudonyms should not be confused with new names that replace old ones and become the individual's full-time name. Pseudonyms are "part-time" names, used only in certain contexts: to provide a more clear-cut separation between one's private and professional lives, to showcase or enhance a particular persona, or to hide an individual's real identity, as with writers' pen names, graffiti artists' tags, [[Resistance movement|resistance fighters']] or terrorists' ''noms de guerre'', computer [[Hacker (computer security)|hackers]]' [[User (computing)|handles]], and other [[Online identity|online identities]] for services such as [[Social Media|social media]], [[Massively_multiplayer_online_game|online gaming]], and [[Internet forum|internet forums]]. Actors, musicians, and other performers sometimes use [[stage name]]s for a degree of privacy, to better market themselves, and other reasons.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Phillips |first1=Damon J. |last2=Kim |first2=Young-Kyu |date=2009 |title=Why Pseudonyms? Deception as Identity Preservation Among Jazz Record Companies, 1920–1929 |url=https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/10.1287/orsc.1080.0371 |journal=Organization Science |language=en |volume=20 |issue=3 |pages=481–499 |doi=10.1287/orsc.1080.0371 |issn=1047-7039}}</ref>

In some cases, pseudonyms are adopted because they are part of a cultural or organisational tradition; for example, [[Religious name|devotional names]] are used by members of some [[religious institute]]s,<ref>{{Cite book |title=Encyclopedia of religion |date=2005 |publisher=Macmillan Reference USA |isbn=978-0-02-865733-2 |editor-last=Jones |editor-first=Lindsay |edition=2nd |location=Detroit |pages=Names in Religion: Devotional Names in Various Religious Traditions |editor-last2=Eliade |editor-first2=Mircea |editor-last3=Adams |editor-first3=Charles J.}}</ref> and "cadre names" are used by [[Communist party]] leaders such as [[Leon Trotsky|Trotsky]] and [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]].

A ''collective name'' or ''collective pseudonym'' is one shared by two or more persons, for example, the co-authors of a work, such as [[Carolyn Keene]], [[Erin Hunter]], [[Ellery Queen]], [[Nicolas Bourbaki]], or [[James S. A. Corey]].