This article must adhere to the biographies of living persons (BLP) policy, even if it is not a biography, because it contains material about living persons. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourcedmust be removed immediately from the article and its talk page, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted, or if you have other concerns, please report the issue to this noticeboard.If you are a subject of this article, or acting on behalf of one, and you need help, please see this help page.
This article is rated Start-class on Wikipedia's content assessment scale. It is of interest to the following WikiProjects:
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Women in Music, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of Women in music on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Women in MusicWikipedia:WikiProject Women in MusicTemplate:WikiProject Women in MusicWomen in music articles
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Veganism and Vegetarianism, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of veganism and vegetarianism on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.Veganism and VegetarianismWikipedia:WikiProject Veganism and VegetarianismTemplate:WikiProject Veganism and VegetarianismVeganism and Vegetarianism articles
This article was created or improved at an Art+Feminism edit-a-thon in 2015.ArtAndFeminismWikipedia:Meetup/ArtAndFeminismTemplate:ArtAndFeminism articleArtAndFeminism articles
Per WP:STAGENAME, we should be using the name that she's known by. Adding her non-pseudonym, especially in the lead paragraph, is not useful, non-encyclopedic, and may be in violation of WP:BLPNAME. ParkerHiggins ( talkcontribs ) 04:32, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Other wiki pages of artists with stage names list non-pseudonym real names. Subject of this article is credited as "Sarah" for output referred to in content of article and should not receive special treatment or use of page for personal promotion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:100C:B00A:2AD4:A4A9:1614:1E06:132A (talk) 04:47, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Where the non-pseudonym is notable, that may be worthwhile. In this context, the citations provided do not pass the notability test (a discontinued independent music blog syndicated but not endorsed by Boston.com and a paywalled alumni publication) and are several years old. All recent citations use the subject's preferred name. This is not special treatment, this is a basic application of the Wikipedia policies cited in my first comment. ParkerHiggins ( talkcontribs ) 04:54, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
An overwhelming majority of usages of this artist's name in citations use the name "Sadie," not "Sarah." One of the citations listed for use of "Sarah" in fact links to an article in which only the name "Sadie" is used. Citation for name "Sarah" is inadequate, non-definitive, non-encyclopedic (as mentioned above) and potentially in violation of WP:BLPNAME (also as mentioned above).Kcansvillage (talk) 04:53, 6 September 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This person goes by her real name in every other aspect but in perfomance. I've met her - she calls herself Sarah. Every other performance artist with a pseudonym has their real name published - I'm not sure why this is not the case with her as well. Two sources:
1) Her U Mass Amherst thesis work of poetry (referenced in the article) [1]
2) Her father's unfortunate passing (which she references on her public twitter account[2]) - she is the one paying for his obituary's guest book to stay up on NY Times
[3]
I'm going to revert it back to include her real name. Either someone is notable enough that they can have their real name posted on wikipedia or they are not notable enough to be up here at all, in which case I would say this article likely does not meet notability guidelines and should be merged with speedy ortiz. Maintaining this artist's privacy should not be an objective of wikipedia. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:8038:1000:5DBC:8F3E:EFD1:BB83 (talk) 14:19, 4 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]
