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
+-------------------------------------------+ | Oliver Pereira | | Dept. of Electronics and Computer Science | | University of Southampton | | omp199@ecs.soton.ac.uk | +-------------------------------------------+