Opinion of Wikipedia’s deadname policy? (user search)
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Junior Chimp
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« on: June 14, 2023, 02:38:46 AM »
I believe this policy is probably related to another policy called “Biographies of Living Persons” - where material about living people (especially if said material is negative about the subject) must be reliably sourced in order to be included in articles. As its founder once said,

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Real people are involved, and they can be hurt by your words. We are not tabloid journalism, we are an encyclopedia.
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