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...
CTL = 64.106.24.52 http://www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Wikipedia:Votes_for_deletion&...
CTL=CH http://groups.google.com/groups?q=carol+smarandache&hl=en&lr=&ie...
GG = 64.106.24.52 http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:gzDvOQpAK30J:www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~... (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.
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--- Tim Starling ts4294967296@hotmail.com wrote:
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.
Wonderful detective work! Charles T. Le actually managed to get an article which praises Smarandache into a peer reviewed math journal, and in addition he generates about 130 Google hits, every last one of them about Smarandache. No institutional affiliation discernable. Gregory shows up as an editor of some of Smarandache's publications. This will make for a great addition to [[Florentin Smarandache]] :-)
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On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Axel Boldt wrote:
--- Tim Starling ts4294967296@hotmail.com wrote:
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.
Wonderful detective work! Charles T. Le actually managed to get an article which praises Smarandache into a peer reviewed math journal, and in addition he generates about 130 Google hits, every last one of them about Smarandache. No institutional affiliation discernable. Gregory shows up as an editor of some of Smarandache's publications. This will make for a great addition to [[Florentin Smarandache]] :-)
Identity of IP addresses is not proof of identity of people. As has been mentioned before (in the context of the GNU FDL and its requirement of listing authors), IP addresses only identify the computers people are working on, or possibly not even that. If people work in the same subject area, they might meet up and work on the same network, quite possibly resulting in the same IP addresses showing up. Not that I'm saying I necessarily believe this applies in this case, but the identities cannot be said to be proven.
By the way, is there a Wikipedia policy on the matter of lying about one's identity? Hiding one's identity is clearly an accepted practice around here, but is actively lying about it a different matter?
And while we're on the subject of IP addresses, how come these days the Wikipedia only tells me that I'm "Not logged in", instead of showing my IP address, as it used to do...?
Oliver
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On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 19:06, Oliver Pereira wrote:
And while we're on the subject of IP addresses, how come these days the Wikipedia only tells me that I'm "Not logged in", instead of showing my IP address, as it used to do...?
See http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:New_server_madness
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)
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@wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin@wikipedia.org] On Behalf Of Tim Starling Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 7.33 To: wikien-l@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=&ie... 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.
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