User talk:Eddplant

Honey, I Love You
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Alex Day article - your edit
I saw your edit to the Alex Day article, removing the reference to your original name. I understand that you want to be known as Eddplant. But the information about your original name seems accurate, and it was properly sourced. Nor did you deny that the information was accurate. I am leaning toward undoing your edit, but first I thought you should have a chance to defend it. I would have preferred to do this on Talk:Alex_Day, but in light of the fact that you did not stop to discuss your edit there, I suppose this will have to do.

I'm not sure I understand your objection. Everyone knows that Bono's real name is Paul David Hewson, and the Bono article on Wikipedia says so right at the start. Everyone knows that Sting's real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, and the Sting (musician) article on Wikipedia says so right up front. And we could go down a very long list like this. Even Ringo Starr is called Richard Starkey, at the very beginning of his Wiki article. I'm not sure it's realistic to think that you can completely erase all memory of your original name from the minds of men. As your fame increases, as I'm sure it will, I think you'll see more, not fewer, references to that original name. It seems futile to delete it from the Alex Day article. What will happen when you become so notable that there is a Wikipedia article about you? Do you think that article will not mention your original name? Some day someone will write such an article. You can't veto it.

I'm sure you know that I started the Alex Day article - or at least this incarnation of it - and I've put a lot of work into researching it, writing it, securing proper copyrights for the photos, defending it against many threats to remove it, and guarding it against all sorts of vandalism. I did not do all this to cause trouble for Alex or any of his colleagues. Quite the contrary, I assure you.

But we have to remember, this is not a personal web page or a P.R. site. This is an encyclopedia. When we have valid, well-sourced, and relevant information about the subject, we cannot censor that information simply because someone would prefer to bury it. And I should remind you, once I published this article on Wikipedia, it ceased to be mine. Now it belongs to Wikipedia, and it can be edited by anyone. I think I can guarantee that even if I were persuaded to leave your original name out of this article, someone else would put it right back in - if they haven't already done so.

And yet, it does bother me to know that you object to this. I would like to discuss it further before I do anything - at your earliest convenience, please.

Wmoran9550 (talk) 18:54, 1 July 2010 (UTC)

I went ahead and consigned the real name info to the footnote. So now, only Eddplant appears in the main body of the article. I hope that's acceptable. Wmoran9550 (talk) 06:00, 3 July 2010 (UTC)