[Wikipedia-l] Re: Celebrity users

[Mark Williamson]

The answer to your question is, Michael Everson and Adam Carr
(although they're not celebrities of the level that they get a lot of
publicity)

Mark

On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:59:48 -0800 (PST), Daniel Mayer
<maveric149 at yahoo.com> 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
> 
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