CFJ 1361 ("Beverly") is quite relevant here.
On Sun, 23 Sep 2018, Alex Smith wrote:
> On Sun, 2018-09-23 at 14:02 -0600, Reuben Staley wrote:
> > Therefore, "D. Margaux" and "D Margaux" refer to the same person, a
> > person who registered during April of this year.
> >
> > This ends my arguments for a frivolous CFJ. I probably did something
> > wrong.
>
> Our precedent is basically that player names aren't a "tracked" thing,
> rather we simply identify players by whichever means is most
> convenient. (It should in theory be possible to change how someone else
> is named on the Registrar report if everyone persistently calls them by
> a particular name.) As such, any unambiguous attempt to name someone is
> likely to work, regardless of what the spelling is.
>
> (There was a period of Agoran history where we had a player named
> "Wooble" and a player named "woggle", and occasionally people got
> confused and ended up producing a name somewhere in between. I can't
> remember for certain how that worked out, but I'd expect it to be "as
> long as it's clear who's the poster was trying to name, it works". This
> situation is much less ambiguous.)
>
> --
> ais523
>
