On 5/21/06, BJörn Lindqvist bjourne@gmail.com wrote:
It's a relevant question. If I were to post under the name "Richard Stallman", you'd want to know if it were really *the* Richard Stallman or not, wouldn't you?
NO! The right to remain anonymous on Wikipedia is SACRED. Don't mess with it unless you want someone to reveal who "alphasigmax@gmail.com" is. If you want to inquire about someones real identity, then email that person DIRECTLY.
You're at cross purposes. Richard Stallman is famous. If someone is posting as "Richard Stallman", we really do want to know if it's him or not. We could simply ask him to give us proof that it's really him, but if it's not - or he declines to say so - we don't need any further info.
Steve