Talk:Celebrate Regenerate

Deletion?

I don't have any experience with Wikis so apologies for coming across as a total n00b. I am Lewis, the original editor and author of "Celebrate Regenerate". I no longer grant permission for my synopsis, blurb, name, or cover to be on this website, and I'm in the process of removing further uploads and pages about the project from the internet too. Created this page in the hope that an admin will see it and respect my wishes. If you wish to keep the page active, that is okay but I would like the aforementioned details removed (synopsis, blurb, my real name, and cover).

Thanks, Lewis – The preceding unsigned comment was added by 86.144.251.202 (talk).

Hello, Lewis;

I'm an admin on here, and I'm very sorry to tell you this but this isn't really how the Wiki works? There is no "permission to be granted" for us to use your name, that is a matter of public record so long as the book was published. And as for the cover and blurb, while they're theoretically your copyright, we are using them under fair use for the purpose of documenting your book's existence, so we don't need your permission to use them on this page. As such, since we didn't need your permission to have these here in the first place, there is nothing for you to "revoke". We are also not really in the business of removing things from the Wiki because their authors ask us to, as a matter of principle. Imagine Marc Platt rocking up and asking us to delete (or otherwise cut back) pour page on Lungbarrow! Really now.

Also, and with respect, we have no proof of your identity. We cannot simply blindly follow the requests of an anonymous user claiming to be [Author X]. In your case I, as an individual, am not seriously doubting your claim. But it would be simply incorrect by protocol; a dangerous precedent to set, if you will.

…All that being said, I understand you must have some person reason why you want to scrub your birth name from the Internet, at least in terms of association with this project. And I think this is close enough to an existing policy that I can offer to meet you half-way on this. Per T:ACTOR, transgender real-life individuals should be referred to by their chosen name everywhere on the Wiki, and their wish for their deadname not to appear anywhere should be respected; hence we make note on the relevant work pages that they were "credited under a different name" but we do not reveal that name.

If, through some public venue such as a blog or Tweet, you put forward an alternative credit for yourself, identifying yourself (under this new credit) as the author of Celebrate Regenerate, then it would be reasonably within policy for us to award you the same courtesy, and only mention this pen name instead of your real name.

Removing the blurb or cover, though — or deleting the page — that is, I'm afraid, not going to happen. A Doctor Who-focused publication with "exclusive interviews" with Anneke Wills or Joseph Lidster is a notable part of the series' BTS history regardless of how its editor feels about it seven years on. Scrooge MacDuck ☎ 01:30, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Also think about all those contributors whose work is being scrubbed off the net...! PoolsideJazz ☎ 09:08, 17 January 2021 (UTC)

Hi there. Lewis here. I'm happy to somehow privately email with proof of my identity (ie. name) in order to have it changed. Any possible way I can do this? Thanks. (Just to respond to some points - nobody's work is being "scrubbed off the net". The book exists in anyone's collection who bought it or downloaded a PDF. But it is no longer online or available, and is only even really searchable thanks to sites like Wayback Machine's archive. This is also not comparable to something like Lungbarrow or Marc Platt - I'm not famous, I'm not an official writer, I'm just a 'normal' person who wishes for his identity to be removed or changed. Having said that, I'm not here to cause drama or an argument. Just looking now for the best way to prove my identity and have the author credit changed. Also happy to provide a version of the cover without my birth/old name on it. - L)