[WikiEN-l] Identity games by Florentin Smarandache

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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 at wikipedia.org [mailto:wikien-l-admin at wikipedia.org]
On Behalf Of Tim Starling
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2003 7.33
To: wikien-l at 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=UTF-8&o
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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