Ethics of using a pen name

What do you think? Is it ethical to use a pen name on a bio that can't be easily verified with the new name?

Here's what I mean. Say you list your credentials, schools you graduated from, magazines you've been published in, etc. in a bio with your real name on your profile on a content site. Later you decide that you want to preserve your real name for other ventures (e.g. fiction books, screenwriting, t-shirt designs, whatever) and don't want to confuse people searching for you.

Is it ethical to just replace the name in the bio with a false one without changing the rest of the bio? You know it's still technically true, but what about people who stumble across it and decide to check up on it? Perhaps they'll find that no such person by that name ever wrote for publication X and will try to call you out on it. I don't mean that in a stalker-type way, but say if I say I went to a certain school. Someone else who graduated from there wants to see when I graduated when they did ('cause I look so familiar) so they plug me into the alumni database and the pen name doesn't pop up.

How would you handle this? Do you just say you went to school but not specify which one? How do you handle listing publications you've written for under your real name - do you include them at all?

(Yes, I'm referring to my own dilemma. No, I'm not embarrassed by anything I've got floating around on the interwebs - I just need separation between what currently pays the bills and my fiction stuff which tends to be ... bawdy. I'm ok with having my real name on my fiction because that's how I am in real life. I don't want anyone to assume that I'm just dabbling in fiction because I have so much SEO stuff floating around.)

Well, I'm referring specifically to DS where they ask you to put the school(s) you've attended, publications you've written for, etc. in your public bio. They do, however, allow the use of a pen name which doesn't seem to mesh well (in my brain) with all that specific info.

I stripped out everything specific in my bio, but I suspect they're going to kick it back to me for revision because they want us to look like credible sources. (But how is a person credible if their name doesn't match their bio?)

Heh, my pen name is taken from my great-grandmother. Nobody would be able to attach it to me unless they had a copy of my family tree in front of them.