Fanlore talk:Identity Protection - Fanlore

There's a couple of missing words in the new clarification: "...old archived usenet mailing lists..." should be "old archived usenet newsgroups or mailing lists" . --arduinna 22:12, 16 March 2009 (UTC)

Clarification

Hello! I'm not sure this is the right place to post this, I do hope someone's watching. There are a couple of specific fan writers that have done fandom-related interviews (such as with National Public Radio or The Washing Post) in which their real names are publicly connected to their fandom pseuds. I would assume that this is sufficient evidence that they are not bothered by the connection, but as they've never (to my knowledge) officially given the OK, I thought I'd better double-check the policy. If it turns out the real names shouldn't be included on fanlore, would linking to the articles that out them (e.g. in footnotes) also be against policy? Thank you! ~ Sparcicle 06:33, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

I would say if they have given interviews and the articles based on these interviews connect real name and fandom pseud, then it's probably safe to assue that it's okay to connect the two identies. On the other hand, if the connection is just in a comment that was posted on the article page by someone else or there is reasonable evidence that they don't want to have real name and fandom pseud connected anywhere on the net (and maybe couldn't make the interviewer remove the connection), then it probably shouldn't be linked. Just my 2 cents, not a mod. ^^° --Doro 22:29, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

OK thanks, that's what I figured. I dug up some more interviews and they seem pretty open about their fannish lives so I'm going to go ahead and include it on their pages. Mods, if you disagree I'll remove the names and the links ASAP. (For the record, the fan writers in question are Arabella and Zsenya.) Thanks! ~ Sparcicle 00:06, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Doro's advice sounds reasonable to me. (You can also check their livejournals if they have any or ask them directly if they publicly associate their legal names with their fan names if it's unclear.) Just for future reference, if you discover that a fan has been outed on Fanlore, please let the wiki committee know so that we can also hide the revisions in the page history--otherwise, someone can find the revealing information by looking at previous edits. Regular users and gardeners are not able to hide page history.--æthel 14:25, 10 August 2010 (UTC)