{
  "as_of": "2026-11-02",
  "policy": "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.",
  "groups": [
    {
      "canonical": "Ian G. Williams",
      "variants": [
        "Ian G. Williams",
        "Ian Williams"
      ],
      "basis": "Explicit requester confirmation: ‘Ian G. Williams is also Ian Williams.’ Preferred public credit Ian G. Williams was supplied earlier in the project.",
      "sources": [
        "https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/05/06/language-meaning-making-and-wrangling-text-as-data-a-social-workers-perspective-gc-digital-fellows/",
        "https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/02/20/thoughts-on-situating-ai-literacy/"
      ],
      "confirmation": "User-confirmed identity equivalence"
    },
    {
      "canonical": "Laura Kane",
      "variants": [
        "Laura Kane",
        "Laura Wildemann Kane"
      ],
      "basis": "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.",
      "sources": [
        "https://files.commons.gc.cuny.edu/wp-content/blogs.dir/885/files/2022/03/GCDI_AR20-21sm.pdf",
        "https://laurawkane.com/publications-awards/",
        "https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2022/04/15/interview-with-laura-wildemann-kane-gc-digital-fellows/"
      ],
      "confirmation": "Evidence-supported match; individual confirmation not recorded"
    },
    {
      "canonical": "A. L. McMichael",
      "variants": [
        "A. L. McMichael",
        "A.L. McMichael",
        "Alice Lynn McMichael"
      ],
      "basis": "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.",
      "sources": [
        "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/GCDigitalFellows/workshop-resources/master/GCDF_OH2020.pdf",
        "https://documentingcappadocia.newmedialab.cuny.edu/blog-page/index.html",
        "https://digitalhumanities.barnard.edu/profiles/al-mcmichael",
        "https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/people/"
      ],
      "confirmation": "Evidence-supported spelling equivalence; preferred public spacing not independently confirmed."
    },
    {
      "canonical": "Maggie Schreiner",
      "variants": [
        "Maggie Schreiner",
        "Margaret Schreiner"
      ],
      "basis": "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.",
      "sources": [
        "https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/people/"
      ],
      "confirmation": "User-confirmed identity equivalence, November 2, 2026"
    },
    {
      "canonical": "Anna Corbett",
      "variants": [
        "Anna Corbett",
        "Anna Schlenz"
      ],
      "basis": "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.",
      "sources": [
        "https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/people/"
      ],
      "confirmation": "User-confirmed identity equivalence, November 2, 2026"
    },
    {
      "canonical": "Shokraan Rahiminezhad",
      "variants": [
        "Shokraan Rahiminezhad",
        "Shokran Rahiminezhad"
      ],
      "basis": "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.",
      "sources": [
        "analysis/membership/directory_data.json",
        "https://gcdi.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2026/11/09/geolibre-open-source-gis-in-your-browser/"
      ],
      "confirmation": "Evidence-supported reuse of previously documented spelling resolution; individual/preferred-name confirmation not recorded"
    }
  ],
  "retained_separately": [
    {
      "names": [
        "Cen Liu",
        "Yu-Hsuan Liu"
      ],
      "reason": "Different given names; no evidence of identity equivalence. Shared surname is insufficient."
    }
  ],
  "review_scope": "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.",
  "process": "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."
}