Talk:Shahriar Afshar

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[edit] CAUTION: Afshar as Wikieditor

Afshar himself is being wiki-editor registered as User:Afshar and has sole contribution to the Afshar experiment article. In his editing practice he used sockpuppeting, and tried to unbalance the main article on Afshar experiment in any possible way. Danko Georgiev MD 09:32, 29 April 2007 (UTC)

That sounds an awful lot like a warning; should we be concerned that the subject of this article may edit on Wikipedia? I say no. Also, nice comment on your revision - "removing link to iranian yellow press, please quote english source in the English wikipedia". I would be careful using the term 'yellow press', even if justified in this case. Glass houses and such. HydroMagi 03:15, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

Hi Afshar, If you came to undo the edits, can you please tell us where to find your CV? There is nothing on your webpage, except a self written title Professor. Mehranshargh 06:19, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wikipedia policy and Afshar as an editor

It is not certain that User:Afshar is "the guy" who did the Afshar experiment. Maybe User:Afshar is just someone who is really interested in that experiment and took that screen name as a kind of Homage,

But it does raise an interesting issue: Wikipedia has a policy that articles may not contain "original research," right?

To me, a strict interpretation of that policy would mean that if Albert Einstein were still alive, he would be disqualified from editing an article about the theory of Special Relativity.

I experience some cognitive dissonance here.

Who better than Albert Einstein to edit that article?

But, rules are rules.

Right? Cyclopiano (talk) 07:10, 13 January 2008 (UTC)