Author:Anonymous

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Is not Anonymous largely the same as unknown? Should this be used only in cases when there's an explicit "Anonymous" in the contents/title, or what? --JVjr 15:40, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

Help:Screen:EditPub#Author says (in part): "If a work is credited to "Anonymous", then put "Anonymous" in the author field. The same applies for any obviously similar pseudonym, such as "Noname". If the work is not credited at all, use "uncredited", with a lower case "u"." So I think that the answer is yes, but the uncredited name should be used where no name at all appears in the publication. It is only when working from secondary sources, when no author is credited but I can't be sure whether there is a credit in the publication or not, that I use unknown. -DES ^Talk 16:09, 6 August 2009 (UTC)

There is a bug in the Publication Editor code which currently tells users that "Every publication must have an author. If you have intentionally left the author field blank, use "Anonymous" to indicate unknown authorship." This behavior has been documented as BUG 2833255 and will be changed in the next patch. Ahasuerus 16:58, 6 August 2009 (UTC)