Talk:Ed Bassmaster

Name
Legal name now Ed Bassmaster. First line of article rewritten to say Ed Bassmaster and leave his birth name in the sidebar? Unsure of protocol, refs welcomed. Coco Chen (talk) 17:21, 28 March 2016 (UTC)


 * You've hit upon a larger problem: Under the core policy for biographies of living persons, Wikipedia cannot make personal-life claims without strict, unambiguous, publicly verifiable citations. Someone previously claimed a birth date based on "United States Public Record Number 126679885", and leaving aside that it's doubtful the US holds a single public record for each and every citizen, called "Public Record # whatever", not a thing under that purported number appears online.


 * Moreover, the only place that appears to give a full name is Channel 17 in Philadelphia on April 6, clearly repeating verbatim what appeared here. Wikipedia disallows such circular citations. Without a proper journalistic or similar citation, we cannot make personal-life claims about a living individual. There's also the policy of WP:PRIVACY: If an individual is going to so much trouble to keep his real name private, so much so that not one viable journalistic sources gives it, then there needs to be a discussion of whether to give it on Wikipedia. --Tenebrae (talk) 19:57, 10 April 2016 (UTC).