User:Smarandache fan

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This is not the user page of any registered user, but a placeholder for information about registered users and anons who are suspected sockpuppets of Florentin Smarandache.

Contents 1 Quotation 2 Suspicious activities 3 Suspected sockpuppets of Smarandache 4 Evidence 5 Remedies

[edit] Quotation

The Outer-Art movement means to make art as ugly as possible, as wrong as possible, or as bad as possible... and, generally speaking, as impossible as possible!

—Florentin Smarandache website

Some Wikipedians are concerned that Smarandache has the same attitude toward mathematics and science, and that using various socks, he may have been committing numerous hoaxes in the Wikipedia.

[edit] Suspicious activities

Suspected socks for Florentin Smarandache have edited Florentin Smarandache and the following articles (now all merged with the biography and converted to redirects)

1. Dezert-Smarandache theory
2. Neutrosophy
3. Outer-art
4. Paradoxism
5. Smarandache geometry
6. Smarandache hypothesis
7. Smarandache logic
8. Smarandache manifold
9. Smarandache-Wellin number

among others. The following requested articles are also suspect:

1. Smarandache ceil function
2. Smarandache constants
3. Smarandache function
4. Smarandache near-to-primorial function
5. Smarandache paradox
6. Smarandache sequences
7. Smarandache-Kurepa function
8. Smarandache-Wagstaff function
9. Quantum smarandache paradoxes

Smarandache fans have apparently added items or links to

1. Extraterrestrial hypothesis
2. Faster-than-light
3. Ternary logic
4. Unsolved problems in mathematics

Regarding verifiability, it should be noted that anyone can add entries to the well known The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences and Smarandache is suspected of having added the entries on Smarandache-Wellin prime.

[edit] Suspected sockpuppets of Smarandache

Registered users:

1. User:Arizonaval (contribs)
2. User:Bigtexas (contribs)
3. User:Dave1999 (contribs)
4. User:Johnkamla (contribs)
5. User:Lit-sci (contribs)
6. User:Marcosantonio (contribs)
7. User:Martha2000 (contribs)
8. User:MyDog (contribs)

The UNM Gallup Branch anon (IPs registered to University of New Mexico in Gallup, NM) has used (at least) the following IPs (circa June 2003):

1. User:64.106.24.53 (contribs)
2. User:64.106.24.52 (contribs)
3. User:64.106.24.51 (contribs)
4. User:64.106.27.120 (contribs)

The City of Tucson anon (IPs registered to the City of Tucson, AZ) has used the following IP (circa June 2003):

• User:166.89.18.10 (contribs)

[edit] Evidence

Evidence suggesting that Smarandache himself is behind this activity includes:

• identical interests (e.g. adding Smarandache's birthday to 1954)
• newcomers to the Wiki at roughly the same time (June 2003)
• similar editing styles
• similar/identical points of view

A case has been posted to WikiEN-L suggesting that most of these users are Florentin Smarandache himself. See this

[edit] Remedies

If your user is listed here, but is not in fact a sockpuppet, simply provide reasonable evidence of who you are on your user page. Such evidence might include a photo, a non-disposable email address, and a work snail mail address.