While I find that banning him may be a bit far, I don't think it is right for him to insert operate this way. It gives his edits an un-honest air to them. I can only speculate 2 possible reasons for his actions. 1. He is testing the wikipedia's peer review system. 2. He is doing this for personal gain. In either case, I would support a soft ban of him (and any aliases. It occurs to me, that if we make significant changes to his contributions, he will not be able to stop the urge to make changes to these articles (if he decides to go against the ban and make edits anyhow). So it shouldn't be too hard to single out his new aliases. While I am hesitant to jump into anything, I we need to discuss options, and then figure out what we are going to do. -- Michael Becker -----Original Message----- From: wikien-l-admin(a)wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Tim Starling Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 7.33 To: wikien-l(a)wikipedia.org Subject: [WikiEN-l] Identity games by Florentin Smarandache Florentin Smarandache appears to be creating a large number of user accounts, and using them to support the inclusion of articles related to his idiosyncratic theories. The case for this is rather thin, but I hope a developer will see this message and check the IP addresses of the various users. What I know is this: Smarandache has a history of inventing multiple personalities. I have three confirmed fake names, invented by him. The three personalities are Carol Harlestle, Charles T. Le and George Gregory. FS = 64.106.24.52 (static line at Gallup) http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Talk:Neutrosophy&diff=996825 &oldid=989864 CTL = 64.106.24.52 http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion &diff=989777&oldid=989735 CTL=CH http://groups.google.com/groups?q=carol+smarandache&hl=en&lr=&i… e=utf-8&selm=8rglbo%2413q%241%40nnrp1.deja.com&rnum=2 GG = 64.106.24.52 http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:gzDvOQpAK30J:www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac. uk/~history/Comments/comments.html+%2264.106.24.52%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 (google cache of http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Comments/comments.html) Additionally, AxelBoldt has made a case that FS is Dr. Minh Perez, on [[Florentin Smarandache]]. The user accounts which have been created in the past few days and have been used to support Smarandache include johnkamla, Lit-sci, Bigtexas, Arizonaval. I don't know if that's all of them. There have also been suspicious anonymous edits under the Gallup IP addresses 64.106.24.51 and 64.106.24.53 -- could be different computers in the same lab. If my theory turns out to be correct, I suggest we threaten FS with banning. Identity games like this should not be allowed. -- Tim Starling. _________________________________________________________________ Get mobile Hotmail. Go to http://ninemsn.com.au/mobilecentral/signup.asp _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l(a)wikipedia.org http://mail.wikipedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l