Stephen McDonald said:
>If a fictitious character were established as a 100 in a Name
>Authority Record and you wished to use it as a subject, you would
>have to establish a 650 Subject Authority Record for the fictitious
>person.
I assume you mean a 150 subject authority.
I think this is ridiculous. An entity shouldn't be person Monday,
Wednesday, Friday, and a nonperson Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday. If
judged to be a person, always a person I think. a
A single 100 authority should be coded whether the name could be a 600
and 100/700, or only a 600.
SLC will follow the basic RDA instruction to treat fictitious persons as
persons, and will make mo exceptions. We see no great advantage in
this change, and refuse to spend time debating whether a person is a
person.
My old litmus of whether the person breathed or not no longer works.
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