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However, '''character pages''' should then bear the name that was legal at the time of the story's release.|[[User:CzechOut|CzechOut]]|T:ACTOR}}
However, '''character pages''' should then bear the name that was legal at the time of the story's release.|[[User:CzechOut|CzechOut]]|T:ACTOR}}
[[User:CzechOut|CzechOut]], could you please clarify why this rule is needed? Is it for factual correctness? Or just for convenience to make credits more searchable? —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 07:24, March 26, 2019 (UTC)
[[User:CzechOut|CzechOut]], could you please clarify why this rule is needed? Is it for factual correctness? Or just for convenience to make credits more searchable? —⁠[[User:Andrybak|andrybak]] ([[User talk:Andrybak|talk]]) 07:24, March 26, 2019 (UTC)
== Misspellings ==
"Past credits in which a deadname was originally used should effectively [be] treated as mistaken". If this is the case, why don't we also treat actual mistakes this way and spell names correctly on story pages? -- [[User:Jack "BtR" Saxon|Saxon]] ([[User talk:Jack "BtR" Saxon|✉️]]) 22:51, November 18, 2020 (UTC)

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However, character pages should then bear the name that was legal at the time of the story's release.CzechOut [T:ACTOR [src]]

CzechOut, could you please clarify why this rule is needed? Is it for factual correctness? Or just for convenience to make credits more searchable? —⁠andrybak (talk) 07:24, March 26, 2019 (UTC)

Misspellings

"Past credits in which a deadname was originally used should effectively [be] treated as mistaken". If this is the case, why don't we also treat actual mistakes this way and spell names correctly on story pages? -- Saxon (✉️) 22:51, November 18, 2020 (UTC)