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Name in first line

The first line says:

Jo Jorgensen (born Joanne Marie Jorgensen; May 1, 1957) is ....

The participle "born" suggests that she changed her name at some point. So it's not appropriate here. "Jo" is merely a nickname for Joanne. So the first line should just give her full name, like the Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton articles.

I was going to make this change myself, but I thought it might be a previously debated point so I wanted to see if there are any objections first. — Lawrence King ^(talk) 00:55, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Lawrence King, she has legally changed her name to Jo Jorgensen (including removing her middle name), so it is formatted correctly per MOS:CHANGEDNAME. I thought that was made pretty clear by the three citations and the inline comment. ― Tartan357 ^Talk 11:28, 14 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Gotcha. Sorry, I should have read the citations. — Lawrence King ^(talk) 08:02, 15 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

So why are you removing this information now (globally) ? —Mykhal (talk) 12:12, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mykhal, because I've never seen a single source with that name. I assumed it was her birth name when I made the previous comment, but I've since realized that it is a completely unreferenced piece of information, so it must be removed per WP:V and WP:BLP. If you have a reliable source giving that as her birth name, please provide it. ― Tartan357 ^Talk 12:14, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mykhal, I have looked long and hard for that name in an RS but have only ever seen it sourced back to Wikipedia. It could very well have simply been invented here. ― Tartan357 ^Talk 12:17, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

I have found no good sources as well. Btw, this is the case, when the best source would be the article topic object/subject herself. —Mykhal (talk) 15:51, 26 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Mykhal, exactly, which is what we get from her FEC filing (already cited), in which she gives her full name as "Jo Jorgensen". ― Tartan357 ^Talk 11:44, 27 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Campaign website is defunct

http://jo20.com/ is no longer Jo Jorgensen’s 2020 website. The last archived version from December 2021 can be found at https://web.archive.org/web/20211203220900/https://jo20.com/

- Internet Esquire (talk) 22:05, 19 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

The dead links to her defunct site have been removed. Thanks. Sal2100 (talk) 19:19, 21 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]