Can One Name The Author(s) of Books/Publications/Newsarticles?

[LizzieL]

"Breach or request the breach of privacy of persons who are or may be living"

is the point here. If you name a living author in the context of a book etc they have published should be all right. Since they have put it in the public domain.
But to reveal something more private about that person would not be.

[Little Nell]

Over the years I have noticed that there seems to be a very strict interpretation of the rule against naming living persons. So what about referencing books or articles? Usually such a reference should include the author and year of publication. Is this banned on Rootschat?

Your question has me a wee bit puzzled.  May I ask why you think referencing books and articles here on RootsChat is banned? 

In the last 19 years, I have made reference on RootsChat a number of times to a particular book about English & Welsh registration certificates by Barbara Dixon.  (There also used to be a website but I think it is no longer available.)  I'm pretty certain that I gave the title as well as the author's name.  However, I don't think I gave the publication date.

In another post, I suggested someone should look at a particular publication (see here:
https://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=78993.msg329108#msg329108 - final line), gave both the author's name and the publisher, but again no date.

I have also quoted from The Dictionary of Genealogy but I confess I may have omitted the author's name 

I'm fairly certain that many others have referred to books and articles both by title and author.  I would not remove such references. 

I hope that answers your question.

Nell