Benjamin Schultz wrote: >CFJ statement: Players may always be referred to by eir legal name >along with eir nickname.
This is a poorly-worded statement. "Legal name" is not defined, and has many interpretations. "Along with" appears to literally refer to using both types of name together for redundancy, which should be trivially acceptable, but I think the initiator intended to consider using the names as alternatives to each other. If "legal name" refers to the name on one's birth certificate or equivalent documentation from a non-Agoran jurisdiction, there have certainly been cases where Agorans have not had knowledge of such names. Although most of us have a conventional Western-style name somewhere in our email headers, there's no guarantee of its legal status, and we don't generally enquire. A prime example: former player Kelly had the name "Kelly Martin" in eir headers, but it later emerged that e was offline more usually known as "Scott Goehring". I don't think we've established the non-Agoran legal status of either of those names. In Agoran context both names (along with the nicknames "Pink Bimbo", "Kelly", "Scott", and "General Chaos") unambiguously refer to the same person. -zefram
