[WikiEN-l] Durova's real name

[Todd Allen]

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 3:01 PM,  <WJhonson at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 5/18/2008 1:19:17 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> stwalkerster at googlemail.com writes:
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> Still,  back to the point, I feel that Durova's
> identity should be kept quiet. If  Durova wants to reveal her identity, then
> she can do it herself - she is  quite capable of that. She does not need
> someone else to publicise it for  her.>>
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> She has revealed her identity.
> Just not on-wiki.
> In an interview, speaking as a Wikipedian, she identifies with her on-wiki
> name and her off-wiki name.
>
> That's the point of this thread.  Not that someone *found out* who she  was
> surrepticiously, but that she herself revealed it.
>
> Will Johnson
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And so she did. That does not change the fact that, if she prefers to
be referred to as "Durova" on-wiki, we should respect that wish. Why
shouldn't we?

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