Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-1827503-20161031103701/@comment-26827632-20161115063133

Bwburke94 wrote: This is why my proposed rule requires admin approval. Survivor Wiki aims to be a resource of Survivor-related-information, but allowing any single editor to deadname Zeke is going too far.

Admins and bureaucrats are understood to know exactly what deadnaming entails, and would not add that information lightly.

(As for your argument on birth sex, we have the long-established precedent of Phiilippine contestant Justine Ferrer, who has been mentioned as transgender on the wiki for a very long time. True, it's not a U.S. page, but our Philippine editors never edit warred over it.) My main issue really is the fact that it would be the call of an admin/bureaucrat, not Zeke himself. If Zeke is indeed transgender, then it should be his call and his call alone whether or not his dead name is published, the same as applying to his birth sex. Just because one trans person is okay with something, does not mean another is too. Were I in Zeke's shoes, I would already be upset with the fanbase digging into my past and revealing information that clearly, since it was not anywhere else, I did not want published. Who's to say that he will want any more information published, if this is a true statement and has already been leeked without consent?

Like I said, I feel it should not be an Admin/bureaucrat's decision, but Zeke's. Bare minimum, if more information is given, it should be approved by a transgender admin or an admin in communication with Zeke in order to respect what he is and isn't comfortable with.