Elliot Page

I'm worried that some fans of IMDb may react slightly more slightly drastically than simply going away. I can sort of envision the emergence of a viable competitor to IMDb, but possibly an illegitimate one, like an institution that built out of "stolen" data. If that happens, it would imply a serious conflict. My suspicion is that IMDb has already been afraid of such a very thing for a long time, which might explain why there have been policy changes regarding the data sets in the alternative interfaces of IMDb. I sincerely hope a way to keep the peace exists and shall continue to exist.

Jeorj, I understand your concerns. That said, I don't know whether or not, from a legal point of view, data can be stolen. Also, there are already quite some other websites that offer a database of movies, tv and cast & crew, so my guess is that contributors might simply consider adding data to those sites instead of (or in tandem with) updating IMDb instead of creating a new competitor.

I do think it's up to IMDb now to show they want to "keep the peace", because as it currently stands, they don't seem to care too much one way or the other.

Which individual? I guess, it doesn't matter. Even though the subject heading of this thread pertains to the IMDb name page about Elliot Page (formerly known the given name "Ellen"), we're not really focused on him in particular (here referred to by the masculine pronoun out of the contemporary notion of respect); and we're also not really concerned with Courtney Cox (known for a period of time by the surname "Cox-Arquette"). Anybody who requests for his or her former names to be censored from the publicly-visible IMDb name page about him or her wouldn't likely do so if the circumstances weren't detrimental to him or her. If the requester feels as though he or she made a mistake, then I figure, the entry-specific censorship can be ceased through the same means by which it was instated to begin with. This is probably different from the way that Wikipedia operates, since its policy is to go automatically base everything off published "reliable sources". The world is simply getting too complicated now, and all Western nations may soon be on the brink of unrelenting civil unrest.

That's just an example of somebody who has not requested that his "alternate names" be hidden on the IMDb name page about him.