On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Axel Boldt wrote:
--- Tim Starling <ts4294967296(a)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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