git:20260930.0123e1f to git:20260930.7432f87

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name: rem-investigate-person

description: The steps for investigating a person's page, composed after rem-investigate when the subject is under people/.

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# Investigating a person

Why these rules: docs/rem-skills/rem-investigate.md

## Identity is given, not guessed

- The user's addresses (the mailbox names in coverage) are never the subject's;

`Email`/`Handles` take only addresses the subject writes from.

- Every handle you were given, wrong spellings too, goes in `Also known as:`;

add the ones you discover (signature, second address, other script). Company

names go in their own field.

- A page titled by a handle gets the person's name once known (`# vern.chan` →

`# Vern Chan`, handle kept in aliases).

- The subject is the owner of a coverage mailbox → the user's own profile: work

from what they wrote; `Our relationship` = account owner; `How the user

writes to them` = not applicable.

- Another page for the same person: name it in `Uncertainties`; do not merge.

## Reading the mail

- **Signature block first**: into `Contact` field by field (title, org,

department, office, direct line, booking link, language). A changed signature

is a dated move or promotion.

- **Address domain = employer** (`@unsw.edu.au` → UNSW), never a role;

- `[attachment]` entries are the file's text; the terms are there; cite their id.

- Mail gives identity and commitments; sessions give intent. Sources disagree →

say so; stated in one and implied in another → cite both.

## What to produce

since when.