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External reviews, publish the name of the reviewer?
Hello,
I have seen on the external reviews page for the movie Arrival (for example) that most people post their actual name in the link
Others write:
YouTube [CrashLanded]
Ziprett [Nicoletta] (German)
This Is Barry
Is there a general rule? Are real names mandatory?
gromit82
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3 years ago
Horst: Here is how the description of an external review is to be formatted, as I understand it:
Name of website [Reviewer's name as given there, if not identical to the website name] (Language if not English)
It doesn't matter whether the name of the reviewer is a real name or an obvious pseudonym. Just recently I submitted several reviews as links, some where the reviewer was given as [Steve Rhodes] and others where the reviewer was given as [Ubiquitous]. "Ubiquitous" is unlikely to be the person's real name, but that's the name they gave, so that's what I listed.
In the case of "This Is Barry", I don't see a byline on the page at https://www.thisisbarry.com/film/arrival-2016-movie-plot-ending-explained/, so I wouldn't include a reviewer's name there.
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