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  • Just to add: the "name differences within a single language" in (at least somewhat) formal setting in some cultures are quite limited and never affect the spelling. For example, in the Russian language any such variation would be a combination of the person's given name, patronymic name, and family name (eventually, marriage name). Barring very rare exceptions, anything else is informal. So, the "approach to name differences within a single language" could be quite a foreign concept. Commented Aug 7, 2015 at 14:52
  • As for the approach "Person identifier"/"Artifact" - I think that's quite a good idea, thank you. Commented Aug 7, 2015 at 14:55
  • @TZakrevskiy Regarding differences within a single language: I think you are agreeing with me when you say "eventually, marriage name." I cannot believe that there is any human culture in which people are always referred to in precisely one way. Commented Aug 7, 2015 at 15:10
  • I never said that people are referred in an exactly one way (though one might check the Chinese language; I'm pretty sure that even in informal setting they go by full names; correct me if I'm wrong). I'm saying that changing the spelling of a name (not changing the family name or using several family names as in "marriage name") is impossible. If a William Doe publishes his paper as "Bill Doe" or "Willy Doe", it maybe ok. If an Ivan Petrovich Sidorov (Иван Петрович Сидоров) publishes an article in Russian, then he will necessarily go by the aforementioned spelling of all parts of his name. Commented Aug 7, 2015 at 15:22
  • @TZakrevskiy I know of cases in Norwegian in which there are different spellings of a name. So you can't say that it never affects the spelling. Commented Aug 7, 2015 at 19:30