Merge only explicitly reviewed name variants. Preserve original credit strings and attribution status. Canonical labels are grouping labels, not independently confirmed preferred public names. A merge does not prove authorship of a provisionally attributed post or imply cohort membership.
All 163 prior human-name entries were screened for matching surname or high name similarity. The three resulting candidate pairs were reviewed. This is a name-variant review, not an exhaustive biographical identity investigation; unrelated pseudonyms or substantially different names could remain unresolved.
Recorded forms: Ian G. Williams; Ian Williams
Explicit requester confirmation: ‘Ian G. Williams is also Ian Williams.’ Preferred public credit Ian G. Williams was supplied earlier in the project.
User-confirmed identity equivalence · 5 distinct post records
Recorded forms: Laura Kane; Laura Wildemann Kane
The archive credits Laura Kane for early Fellows posts and Laura Wildemann Kane in the later interview. The GCDI 2020–2021 annual report identifies Laura Wildemann Kane as a 2012–2015 Fellow and philosophy PhD; her own publications page records the same 2012–2015 fellowship. This combination supports the match. Laura Kane is retained as the existing local-network display label; no preference for the shorter form is asserted.
Evidence-supported match; individual confirmation not recorded · 17 distinct post records
Recorded forms: A. L. McMichael; A.L. McMichael; Alice Lynn McMichael
Identical linked-data article titles in saved item_author/author_name fields and institutional guide page 23; punctuation/spacing variants. The Barnard Digital Humanities Center profile is headed A.L. McMichael and explicitly names Alice Lynn McMichael in its biography, supporting the full-name variant.
Evidence-supported spelling equivalence; preferred public spacing not independently confirmed. · 20 distinct post records
Recorded forms: Maggie Schreiner; Margaret Schreiner
Ian G. Williams explicitly confirmed the two named pairs refer to the same people after comparing the People page with archive credits. Existing archive display label retained; no preferred current name is inferred.
User-confirmed identity equivalence, November 2, 2026 · 7 distinct post records
Recorded forms: Anna Corbett; Anna Schlenz
Ian G. Williams explicitly confirmed the two named pairs refer to the same people after comparing the People page with archive credits. Existing archive display label retained; no preferred current name is inferred.
User-confirmed identity equivalence, November 2, 2026 · 7 distinct post records
Recorded forms: Shokraan Rahiminezhad; Shokran Rahiminezhad
Reuse the saved directory-data resolution explicitly documenting Shokran/Shokraan as the unique current team member (directory_data.json signed-name resolution limits). New post 25049 declares author taxonomy shokran-rahiminezhad and separately spells the full name in a photography credit. The photo credit is not the basis for article authorship. Source author_terms and credited_authors retain Shokran; canonical spelling follows the existing roster, not a newly confirmed preference.
Evidence-supported reuse of previously documented spelling resolution; individual/preferred-name confirmation not recorded · 1 distinct post records
Cen Liu and Yu-Hsuan Liu remain separate: no evidence supports merging their identities. McMichael spacing variants are grouped using matching article titles in the export author fields and institutional guide; original credit strings remain inspectable.
The register groups published credits using the reviewed identity decisions. The original two alias merges joined local and curated-source spelling variants; the new McMichael merge joins spacing variants supported by the guide and export fields. The grouped register contains the 421 published records. Authorship alone does not establish cohort membership. Joint credits are expanded by the existing reviewed mapping.
Ian G. Williams requested the review and confirmed his alias. Codex screened the names, consulted linked sources, proposed the Laura match, implemented the grouping and ran checks. Full independent human verification is not claimed. On November 2 Ian also supplied the People directory and explicitly confirmed Margaret/Maggie Schreiner and Anna Schlenz/Anna Corbett as two identity pairs. Codex retained the archive labels and original directory strings; no article authorship was inferred from membership.
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