Thomas Dalton wrote:
I find myself looking on it as "foolish" rather than "unacceptable". There *are* stalkers and freaks who go after WP editors [...]
While that is all absolutely true, it doesn't explain why he chose a fake identity with a PhD and a tenured professorship. I can't see any reason for that other than to get people to respect him more, which is rather disappointing, to say the least. I take anything someone says about themselves under a pseudonym with a pinch of salt, but I still wouldn't expect that kind of deception.
That's a great point.
Does anybody have numbers handy on his areas of contribution? If he never worked on the articles that he claimed false credentials in, then it would be a different thing for me.
William