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There's a few on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_real-name_policy_cont... Eg: Robin Kills the Enemy
Isn't that SV/WASP-centric policy virtually racism?
for further reading:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364933
search for my username, I'm still thinking ignorance
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Yes, absolutely. I, for example, am one, though I admit I was born only after humanity has visited the Moon. Still, more than 16 years ago.
There's one person left from the previous century too: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Morano
Oh boy, Indonesian here, I only have one name (No last name). Websites that require me to have both first name and last name are the bane of my existence. Quora also blocked me, despite me sending an email to their appeal division with a copy of my ID. In the end I gave up fighting for it.
Oh boy, Indonesian here, I only have one name (No last name). Websites that require me to have both first name and last name are the bane of my existence. Quora also blocked me, despite me sending an email to their appeal division with a copy of my ID. In the end I gave up fighting for it.
I was in a similar situation as you (south Indian with only one name), and after trying to reason with their customer support, I found it easier to just use a fake name. If you think my real name is fake for no good reason, go ahead and have a fake name that "sounds real".
Oh boy, Indonesian here, I only have one name (No last name). Websites that require me to have both first name and last name are the bane of my existence. Quora also blocked me, despite me sending an email to their appeal division with a copy of my ID. In the end I gave up fighting for it.
The British royal family have run into the same problem. Traditionally, they use a first name and a title, e.g. "Prince William, Duke of Cambridge". For legal purposes, they occasionally use the surname "Windsor" or "Mountbatten-Windsor". This is applied rather inconsistently - Prince William enlisted in the Air Force as "William Wales". https://www.royal.uk/royal-family-name
(As mentioned at your link.)
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StackExchange? Btw. same here, I used it before it reached it's first million users, even went to few Quora meetups but I blocked the site on notebook two years ago. I feel it became a place for chronic procrastinators and self-promoters + there's very little unique knowledge... as a content researcher, 99 out of 100 I find better information elsewhere.
Just curious, where do you go the other 99 times?
Rather than rely on Internet re-tellings (sometimes reliable, sometimes not) of what's in such references, got to the source.
The availability of technical articles and books through (extralegal) services such as SciHub and LibGen means that the quality of information online has increased greatly. Not that articles and books are always valid, but they tend to have a lower bullshit level.
If you're into older sources (1924 and prior, some after), The Internet Archive and Project Gutenberg, as well as other archival sites, have a wealth of information.
Google's Ngram Viewer is an amazing way to trace the emergence of specific terms (and occasionally names). I'll often start my search from Ngram Viewer, find an early period of pre-emergence of a key phrase, and look for first instances of mention. For technical papers, further drilling down to references can turn up first instances. I've used this successfully numerous times to track down idea origins (or near-origins), examples being the concepts of money as based on energy (Frederick Soddy -> H.G. Wells -> A.C. Clarke -> Kim Stanley Robinson), or the modern misapprehensions of Adam Smith's "invisible hand" metaphor (Jacob Viner -> Paul Samuelson -> FEE/Leonard Read -> Regnery Press -> von Mises/Rothbardian Libertarianism -> General popular use ~mid 1960s).
Wikipedia can be useful, though you want to rely on its references section for verification. Reddit's "Ask" subs (Science & Historians) can be useful. For programming / inforamtion technology technical info, StackExchange is pretty good.
Oh boy, Indonesian here, I only have one name (No last name). Websites that require me to have both first name and last name are the bane of my existence. Quora also blocked me, despite me sending an email to their appeal division with a copy of my ID. In the end I gave up fighting for it.
Honest question, are you able to fly? Did you ever attempt to fly to the US?
I can fly internationally just fine, however my name always gave the immigration officer a headache. Simply because, there's no standard way of resolving it and searching for the correct record of me is painful.
For example
the name on my passport: Steven
My UK Visa: Steven Steven
If I need got to US, from what I heard: Either "Steven LNU"(Last Name Unknown) or "FNU Steven" (First Name Unknown)
Some institutions prefer:
Steven -
Steven .
Steven ,
So yeah, major headaches, especially because my only name is super generic
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Why do companies want to know my gender at all? I am offended anytime some form asks me for it, often even making the field mandatory. It is seldom relevant to my relation with the company.
Advertisement purposes.
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Just curious, where do you go the other 99 times?
Not OP, but I've increasingly been searching within published papers and books for information. Rather than rely on Internet re-tellings (sometimes reliable, sometimes not) of what's in such references, got to the source. The availability of technical articles and books through (extralegal) services such as SciHub and LibGen means that the quality of information online has increased greatly. Not that articles and boo…
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The only feasible way to handle a name given that, at least what I can think of, is a single unbounded textbox that's also optional. Actually, I guess it really must be a foreign key M{0,}:N as a many-to-many to allow for having multiple names.
If you require users to divulge their real name (i.e. financial institutions), it's probably a better idea to have two fields: - Your legal name - What you'd like us to call you
The UK for one doesn't have the concept of a legal name. As an adult you can call yourself anything you like, as often as you like.
You can complete a deed poll document to change your name on official documents, but it doesn't 'make legal' your new name, it just officially states that your new name supercedes your old name.
https://www.gov.uk/change-name-deed-poll/overview
“I [old name] of [your address] have given up my name [old name] and have adopted for all purposes the name [new name].
"If the individual changing their name so wishes, evidence of a change of name (forename and/or surname) may be provided by a procedure known as deed poll."