Iggy Pop definitely is a stage name for James Newell Osterberg, but I think except for his mother nobody ever used this name in the last 40 years.

I thought there was something like a consensus to treat names that could be "normal" names with the default parsing.
But maybe I got this wrong again and it was just the usual voicy minority (that is always called out if someone disagrees) that postulated this.

Quoting Silence_of_Lambs:

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Iggy Pop definitely is a stage name for James Newell Osterberg, ...

IMHO its a fact that "Iggy Pop" is a stage name. So the rules are clear in this point:

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If an actor name is only a first name or stage name enter it entirely in the first name field. Examples are Cher, Madonna, Cedric the Entertainer & Queen Latifah.

So I voted for Iggy Pop //

Strictly per the rules this would be the right way!

I know we handle it in an other way, if the names sounds like real names...but Iggy Pop...in my eyes its a bit to strange for a normal name...

Hey...thats only the way I see it and voted for... 

Quoting awilbohk:

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I know we handle it in an other way, if the names sounds like real names...but Iggy Pop...in my eyes its a bit to strange for a normal name...

So does Moon Unit Zappa but that's her birth name (and she is in Roseanne, Curb Your Enthusiasm and a lot more...)

I think it should be Iggy / Pop.
It is a stage name, but not in the way Cedric the Entertainer and Queen Latifah are stage names. Those two don't have a surname in their stage name and therefore it makes sense to put the complete stage name in the first name field. Iggy Pop has a surname, albeit a made up one.

Hmm. Tricky.

I voted Iggy / Pop, using the same logic as MikaLove.

Well. A lot of views here, but IMO a lot of the reasoning isn't that consistent...
I took a look at Wikipedia's List of stage names when I needed some perspective yesterday.
Obviously, there are an almost infinite amount of stage names. Heck, Kirk Douglas is a stage name.
Therefor, again IMO, we can not use the logic to not parse any stage name that we come across.

Like I said, mostly the stage name that mustn't be parsed is that of a musician.
To me there is a difference between Queen Latifah and Iggy Pop. "queen" is like a title. Like "Count Basie". But Pop could be an actual surname.
(Also, Iggy Pop doesn't make pop music, but rock music. LoL...)

If you don't agree with this logic, we would have to come to a consensus where we never parse a musician's stage name and also never parse any other obvious stage names that doesn't "look like" a real birth name.
I can however agree that there's a fine line between what looks like what... But it's not a great idea to go by individual choices. That will mess the DB up. I can say that I already have a lot of unparsed actual names in the DB. Just found Amy Yasbeck / and loads of others yesterday.