[MR] mundane names and the OP

[EoganOg at aol.com]

In a message dated 8/24/02 10:46:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
vnend at adelphia.net writes:


>     Here is this wonderful opportunity to encourage people to register 
> their names (and possibly arms) in a manner we know to be unique and 
> trackable, and instead we are trying to force people to have another 
> name on file in a database they don't control.  And this for something 
> completely on the game side of things.
> 
>     My Lady, I commend your diligence and work, but I fear that I can 
> not agree with your methods.  Is there a way to get one's modern name 
> *out* of your database?
> 

I beleive that the modern names used in the OP database are for use only in 
Mordrea's system and are not to be published on line or in any other forum.

Why does she need mundane names?

Lest you think a herald is disagreeing with you, that we should all get our 
names registered, let me explain.

Many people who are called into court have not registered a name, or are in 
the process and have not had it go through yet.  Sometimes the name that they 
finally wind up registering is different from the one they went by previously 
and is listed on the court report.  Maybe it is a different spelling.  Maybe 
it is a different name altogether.

Sometimes people who have registered names up and decide to change that name 
-- maybe even after 10 years in the SCA.

And sometimes people with registered names, who have no intention of changing 
their name, simply have it misspelled on the court reports.  For instance, my 
registered name is Eoghan Og mac Labhrainn.  On the various promissory 
scrolls hanging in my den, I am "Eogan MacClaren" or "Eogan McLaren" or 
"Eogan Og."  How is the Clerk of Precedence to know these are all the same 
people unless a mundane name is also given?

A few months back I published a letter in our baronial newsletter, the 
Pheonix, emploring all of my heralds, when they submit a court report, to 
please, in addition to making sure the people's SCA names were complete and 
spelled correctly, please also list their mundane names.  The reason for this 
is to make sure that the people that we recognize in court are honored for 
more than the 2 minutes they may be up there.  We want to make sure that 
there is record of your award, and credit is given where it is due.

Your mundane name is the one thing that we can be reasonably sure will not 
change.  If it is not published in any public forum, what is the problem with 
using it to keep track of the awards and recognition you recieve in the OP 
database?  Your mundane name is given to SCA, Inc, when you join as a member. 
 It is given to the College of Heralds when you submit a name or heraldic 
device.  I see no problem with giving it to Mordrea, especially when it makes 
her difficult job a bit easier.

Aye,
Eogan Og
Sacred Stone Persuivant
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