[Wikipedia-l] Re: Celebrity users

[Stirling Newberry]

On Jan 11, 2005, at 9:59 PM, Daniel Mayer wrote:

> --- Josh Gerdes <wikipedia at gerdesfamily.com> wrote:
>> I think this is a pretty unlikely scenario. However, if a person 
>> *were*
>> to have the same name as a different, better known person, it would be
>> unfair to block the less known person. It would be a good idea for 
>> that
>> person to say on his or her user page that he or she is not the famous
>> person, though.
>
> But what famous person in their right mind would want to use their 
> real name?
> In fact, famous people are likely already among us - blissfully 
> incognito.
>
> -- mav
>

I can think of two right off.