----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Bauder" <fredb...@fairpoint.net> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l@lists.wikimedia.org> Sent: Monday, December 05, 2011 6:17 PM Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] Demi Moore BLP name
> "...more reliable than Demi Moore herself." > > Such a conclusion is nonsense. > > To take a personal example, no amount of examination of my birth > certificate, or publication of its contents, is going to result in me > changing my name to what it says. > > Fred Or, to put it another way, hearsay evidence is generally inadmissible because it is not susceptible to testing by cross-examination. But there are exceptions so numerous as to have led to comments that the "hearsay rule" no longer exists. As I understand it, one's name is whatever one wants it to be, unless it is changed for fraudulent purposes, so if Demi Moore wants to call herself Demetria *now*, she may do so; but that cannot change the name given by her parents, which would appear to be fixed by her birth certificate. _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l
