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Originally Posted by palo5
It can certainly be argued that a certain name is "perhaps better-known" as you put it, because that name appears in one or two individual issues more. But that does not necessarily mean that it's better-known, because it does not take distribution numbers into account, or the fact that only enthusiasts would have remembered it anyway -- people are much more likely to learn names from this site than they ever were from decades old magazines
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Yet the names used on this site are usually taken
from those very same decades-old magazines.
So I'm not sure where that leaves your argument?
As to circulations, if you're interested I can give you fairly precise figures for Mayfair from that time. They're taken from ABC, the Audit Bureau of Circulations, which (many) mags. belong(ed) to in order to help them calculate/justify their prices to would-be advertisers. There are branches of ABC in most/many countries of the world.
1977-04 (one month after the publication of the Josephine Moore pictorial): UK circs. for Mayfair mag. were 423,813.
1977-10 (two months prior to the Jacqueline Crowther pictorial): 448,146
1978-05 (three months after the Anette Dybdal pictorial): 462,928
So this was a period of (slightly) rising (average) monthly circulations in the UK market, for Mayfair.
Those ABC figures were published within the pages of Mayfair magazine itself, and usually updated on a (roughly) six-monthly basis.
Add to that (last?) the (unknown to me) circulation of the Italian mag. Playmen from 1977-08 where they named her Annette. /shrug/
Also there's perhaps the audience/viewership for Miss Denmark and Miss World to consider?
Many vef members who browse model threads perhaps do not care much if at all what name(s) the models are given, they maybe just want the pics. Perhaps it is only, or mainly, those who spend some time in MIR who do, who (have to) give some thought to the issues concerning best-known-as names, because that is where those issues crop up repeatedly.
If you want not only solve dates but also reasoning(s) for MIR solves/model name decisions, you'll have to spend a fair bit of time in the MIR section observing how the mods there operate & make their decisions.
I have previously noted (elsewhere on vef) that I think it would be very helpful for many mods. to do precisely that: to take part in MIR for awhile (by which I mean over the course of several months, as it takes time for the many different dimensions of stuff to "crop up") in order to really learn about such issues, to gain a better understanding of their implications. Not all at once, of course, but perhaps mods could volunteer/rotate in on a trial basis.
edit: I've since been told the Playmen issue was instead 1977-06.