Aliases and screen names

Online poker gave a generation of players a second name, and for some of them it is the better-known one. Someone searching for Moorman1 and someone searching for Chris Moorman want the same page.

How this desk files them

1. The legal name is the heading. It is what the page is about and what the record is filed under.
2. The screen name sits in a quieter line under it, marked as an alias, never styled as though it were the person's name.
3. The finder matches both. Typing either one lands on the same profile, which is the entire point of writing them down.

What does not go in that line

Nicknames invented by commentators, handles the player has publicly dropped, and anything that only ever appeared in a forum argument. An alias is filed when it is how the player is actually known, not when it is amusing.

Homonyms

Two people can share a name. When that happens the correct answer is two pages or none, and never one page holding both careers. If you find a profile here that has merged two people, that is a correction, and it will be treated as one.