When an awarding group gives an award to someone under their pseudonym, the natural thing is to assign that award to that book/story under that pseudonym. While that award now shows up on the award display page, it does not show up on the author's bibliography page. For example, Rowena Cory Daniells made the short list for the Norma K. Hemming 2013 award (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ay.cgi?Nh2013). But "Rowena Cory Daniells" is a pseudonym, so the page for that author (http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/ea.cgi?110000) redirects you to "Cory Daniels". That page does not see the Hemming Award, and no awards are shown to that person. In this particular case, we probably have the "canonical name" chosen unwisely (she used "Cory" early in her career, but most of her books and reputation came as "Rowena"). So if we changed the attribution of the award to "Cory", so it showed up, and then someone later changed her name to the "new canonical" form, we would probably lose the awards for her again. Substantially better would be to collect all of the awards from all of the pseudonyms used by an author.
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Installed in r2014-152 on 2014-03-27. Closing.