[WikiEN-l] Durova's real name

[Ray Saintonge]

SlimVirgin wrote:
> On Sat, May 17, 2008 at 8:30 PM,  wrote:
>   
>> Durova, in an interview, posted on YouTube, states her own real full  name.
>>
>>  The identification of Durova, is now strewn widely across the  internet.
>>
>>  Can we not repeat her own real full name in-Wiki ?
>>     
> I can't see any reason to publish her name onwiki if she doesn't want
> it (and I don't know whether she does).
>
> It does get harder to maintain a right to pseudonymity if you're
> deliberately linking your real name to the pseudonym elsewhere, but
> I'd still say if there's no need to post the real name onwiki, and the
> person doesn't want it, we should err in their favor.
I generally support this view, and it seems that most of us who are 
willing to respect another editor as a person would do that naturally.  
If we know her name, so what?  Those whose motives I would most distrust 
are the ones who would persist in startlingly unnecessary actions or 
revelations.

Ec