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FletcherNathan

FletcherNathan (talk · contribs) New user whose only edits have been to the existing article about the politician Nathan Fletcher. Edits are sourced, but all are positive material about the subject; I have tried to tone down some of the laudatory stuff or material with unreliable sourcing. User has been warned twice on their talk page, once about username, once about COI, with no response. Active ongoing editing as we speak. MelanieN (talk) 02:00, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Disallow under 'Misleading' username. The username implies that the user is the subject, to which I'm pretty sure they're not. However, if they are, that's clear conflict of interest editing. I would report this to the conflict of interest noticeboard while you're at it. They seem to be pushing all positive views despite being a new user. Tutelary (talk) 02:17, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for the suggestion, I have done that. --MelanieN (talk) 03:29, 8 July 2014 (UTC)
Allow This report should be at WP:COIN, unless you believe this is the politician, then WP:IMPERSONATE is in order. Otherwise too ambiguous. Mlpearc (open channel) 19:19, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

BillMoyers

The following discussion is an archived debate of the username below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Misplaced Pages talk:Requests for comment/User names). No further edits should be made to this section.

The result was: Non-admin closure: User indefinitely blocked. Mlpearc (open channel) 19:43, 23 July 2014 (UTC)

BillMoyers (talk · contribs)

Violation of user name policy for ""real names". Bill Moyers is a prominent television personality on PBS. If this editor does not share the same name then he should not use it. If he does, policy requires him to prove it. I directed this editor to the policy, but have received no response. TFD (talk) 23:09, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

I concur that this name is a problem. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 17:51, 18 December 2013 (UTC)

Bill responds here. While I did originally report this username, I don't believe that the editor is attempting to impersonate a well-known person. I'm inclined to believe it is his real name but I think there could be confusion among readers (I was surprised to see the name) and it would be preferable if he changed it. Liz 01:31, 19 December 2013 (UTC)

In that case, this part of the page I linked to above needs to be followed: "If you are using such a name because it is your real name, you should make clear on your userpage that you are not (or are not related to) the well-known person of that name." After that is done, there should be no more problems. Pinging User:BillMoyers so he can hopefully see this. Ansh666 02:38, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
He has not said it is his real name. TFD (talk) 12:33, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
He has also been generally obtuse, demonstrating WP:IDHT on article and user talk, and since he edits medical articles, the name *is* misleading. He has demonstrated varying levels of understanding of Misplaced Pages processes, and doesn't seem to respond to either pings or direct posts to his talk page. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 15:38, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
Ah, I misread (which was possibly his intent, eh?). The famous Moyers doesn't have anything explicit to do with medical (or psychology) matters, does he? At least a quick perusal of his page didn't ring any warning bells for me compared to this editor's contribution areas. Since as of right now he can't or won't prove that his name really is Bill Moyers or that he is not actually the famous Bill Moyers, I'm restoring my disallow above. Ansh666 21:55, 19 December 2013 (UTC)
  • Another editor has questioned the use of the name on the user's talk page (User talk:BillMoyers#Question about User Name/ID). Again he evades saying that his real name is Bill Moyers and the implication is that it is not. Also, he has failed to post to this discussion page despite my request. I suggest therefore that the account be blocked until and unless he states that he is using his real name or agrees to a name change. TFD (talk) 22:16, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
  • I don't know why no action has been taken on this; of course the real Bill Moyers is involved in health (look up his books on amazon.com). And I would post the claims Moyers has made about me all over Misplaced Pages, but I don't want to give them more attention than warranted. There is some apparent deliberate obtuseness here, and this fellow is getting traction via the use of this name. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 22:22, 28 December 2013 (UTC)
  • Ansh666 Apparently: On the general apparent obtuseness, I encourage perusal of Talk:Schizophrenia where (among other places) he has decided that I don't know the difference between a doctor and a nurse, I'm not qualified to work on the article since I don't own the DSM5, and I'm not qualified to work on the article because I'm not a Dr. Work on that article has ground to a halt, partly as a result of the IDHT on talk. SandyGeorgia (Talk) 01:50, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

He doesn't appear to have claimed that this is his real name. He says it is a common name, but isn't explicit. Maybe I am being overly pedantic, but I am inclined to block unless he claims it is his real name. -- John Reaves 05:17, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

I had not realized that Bill Moyers had edited a bestseller, Healing and the Mind (1993) as a companion to his PBS TV series. It makes the chance of confusion even greater. Ansh, he has not edited anything related to Bill Moyers AFAIK. TFD (talk) 08:22, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Blocked. The situation seems rather ambiguous, since he's not precisely saying whether he's the famous guy, or whether he's someone else with the same name, or neither. I've blocked because of the ambiguity, and I've left him a set of simple instructions for resolving the situation. Nyttend (talk) 14:33, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

You know, that section of the policy needs a minor re-write to allow for the possibility that the editor actually is "the well-known person of that name". There are no instructions about what a notable person editing under his or her real name should do. (And given WP:OUTING, can we really require that a person publicly post "Hi, I'm actually this famous person"?) WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:33, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
I also noticed that a sentence the first paragraph seemed to assume that a famous person would not use a real name; I've changed that sentence so it doesn't make that assumption. The second through fourth paragraphs give instructions that famous people can follow if they want to edit under their own names. A page on the person's Web site saying "on Misplaced Pages I use the account Foo" doesn't seem like a serious outing problem, if someone has decided to use a real name. —rybec 21:51, 29 December 2013 (UTC)
Yeh, it's a bit hard to 'out' someone who is using their real name. I would think that, because of possible COI issues, someone famous enough for an article editing under their own name ought to declare the fact. Especially if they are editing the article - and I can't really see many doing any other unrelated editing. Peridon (talk) 19:33, 3 April 2014 (UTC)
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