Talk:Houston Bone

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Note

Over the past several months, there have been multiple attempts to disappear the full name "Mathew Hubert Houston Bone Murray" from the article's introduction, while leaving the "Bone's full name is listed on his website" note that's footnoting it in the article. Note, however, that:

1. All of his early filmography credits, from Teenagers up to and including the original release of I Don't Know Who You Are in 2023, were to either "Matt Murray" or "M.H. Murray", so that name has to remain present in the article, precisely because some of the work he's known for was credited to that name.
2. The fact that the full name is still present on his website indicates that he clearly isn't trying to hide it for some reason, and calling attention to its presence on his website defeats any possible purpose in trying to remove it from our article anyway.
3. The fact that the same website also continues to use male pronouns clearly indicates that he hasn't come out as transgender or non-binary, so this cannot be claimed as a WP:GENDERID issue. (And even if that's actually what it is, we would need actual sourcing to verify that due to the lack of a pronoun change on his website, and still couldn't completely disappear his old name from the article anyway since he had preexisting notability under that name.)

So, for all of those reasons, his full name cannot simply be erased from our article. Houston Bone is the professional name he's using now, obviously, so the article should be (and already is) written using that name as his principal identification — but the article must continue to acknowledge his prior name, precisely because he was already notable under that name before changing it. Bearcat (talk) 19:51, 10 July 2026 (UTC)