[WikiEN-l] Michael claiming identity of actor Ahmed Best

Sat Jul 5 18:31:44 UTC 2003

james duffy wrote:

>
> I said before that Michael and Adam's 'trolling' of wiki, whatever one 
> may think of it, never raised the problems including serious legal 
> issues (ie possible copyright abuse) thrown up by DW. I'd like to 
> amend that to suggest that Michael could potentially be raising 
> another legal nightmare.
>
> A couple of times lately he has assumed the names of ''real people'' 
> and claimed to be them when editing wiki. He apparently has now 
> assumed the identity of actor Ahmed Best. Not knowing anything about 
> Star Wars (I'm more of a Trekkie!) I know nothing of Mr. Best, 
> including whether he does exist. But he does feature in wiki articles 
> that seem to have been created by other genuine contributors, so I 
> presume he must.
>
> According to the page of [[User:Jar Jar Binks]] (the character on Star 
> Wars played by Best), Michael wrote:
>
> Hi there, I'm the real [[Jar Jar Binks]] ([[Ahmed Best]]).
> I heard this website is a tough place for a banned user that I don't 
> know.
> I played in all [[Star Wars]] sequals from 1998 to 2003.

I would assume that the username Jar Jar Binks is a problem, as it's 
more than likely been tradmarked.

>
> PS: The great thing about Ireland is that it is so small we all tend 
> to know each other (or know someone who knows someone who . . . ) If 
> Michael uses Bono's name, I'll have a word with him and try to stop 
> him from suing wiki. (I know his wife Ali!)  :-)

That makes the whole world's leadership a small place :)