User talk:158.143.166.124

If you bother to check, you'll see I've been doing this a lot longer than you. Your edit was reverted because you failed to give any evidence or explanation for your claim that a man called William is known as "Bob". Katharineamy (talk) 17:33, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Is that really the case? I've been a Wikipedian since 2002. How about you? 158.143.166.124 (talk) 17:36, 16 July 2009 (UTC) [reply]

Then why are you editing without logging in, from an IP with no edits before this month? I see now that you've changed everything you wrote to "Bill", which makes more sense and so I'll leave it alone. But please note that I do not do test edits. Katharineamy (talk) 17:38, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I thought I wrote Bill in the first place, so Bob was a typo/mistake. The name issue was discussed at the talk page. I've attended lectures with Bill Blair, so I know he's not called William in daily use any more than Tony Blair is called Anthony. IP addresses change regularly, and I can't do anything about that. I prefer to edit as an anonymous rather than as a registered user, and that is also perfectly alright. There is a strong tradition at this project, or at least used to be, not to discriminate against anonymous users as opposed to those who use an account. 158.143.166.124 (talk) 17:44, 16 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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