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black holes from naked singularities?", by Bertrand Chauvineau, Phys. Rev. D
{\bf 98}, 088501 (2018), the author did show that the metric used in Z.
Kov\'{a}cs and T. Harko, Phys. Rev. D {\bf 82}, 124047 (2010), and initially
introduced in K. D. Krori and D. R. Bhattacharjee, J. Math. Phys. \textbf{23},
637 (1982) and K. K. Nandi, P. M. Alsing, J. C. Evans, and T. B. Nayak, Phys.
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field equations with a minimally coupled scalar field. In our reply we would
like to point out that this result is actually not new, but it was already
published in the literature. Moreover, a rotating solution that generalizes the
Kerr metric for a nonminimally coupled scalar field does exist. We briefly
discuss the nature of the singularities for the generalized metric, and point
out that it can be used as a testing ground to differentiate black holes from
naked singularities. We also mention the existence of some other typing or
technical errors existing in the literature.
