QUOTE(the fieryangel @ Thu 10th December 2009, 10:04am)
Hmm, are we absolutely certain that there are not multiple Mark Binmore's, one of whom runs a Bed and Breakfast and the other who works for Foundation66 in London? It would seem that a Mark Binmore does indeed work for foundation66 in London, but I can't quite make out how he could be running a B and B in Béziers at the same time...
This is a serious possibility. Early in this thread I thought that
this other Mark Binmore in London might be him also. But then when tarantino posted the pic from the other Facebook entry for the guilty Mark Binmore in London (which had been removed by that account holder hours earlier), I retracted my interest in the Mark Binmore who shows no signs of pattern balding.
We have to consider the possibility that the perpetrator we've been discussing is more than one person, and we have them mixed together.
Another possibility is that the perpetrator borrowed the name from an innocent Mark Binmore, and merely found some pics that somewhat resembled this person, and pretended that these are his own pics. Let's say these "balding" pics are pics of someone far away who doesn't know what's going on, and the guilty party using them isn't really named Mark Binmore at all. Even if the innocent Mark Binmore with no balding discovers this other Mark Binmore on the web, all he can do is assume that he has a namesake and that this other Mark Binmore looks somewhat like himself except for the hairline. Amazing coincidence! He shrugs his shoulders and gets on with his life.
On the other hand, this has been going on at least since 2002. Seven years is a long time to keep this up. There are also indications that the guilty party we're trying to identify is not highly educated, and is careless when it comes to covering his tracks on the web.
If the guilty Mark Binmore is getting a paycheck from Foundation66, then it is crucial to determine this as soon as possible. If you are getting a paycheck under the name "Mark Binmore," then you are leaving a trail that identifies you all over the place: banks, credit agencies, the tax collector, etc.
Essjay was busted when Jimbo offered him a real job. At that point, if not sooner, he had to reveal his real name for the purpose of getting on the payroll and cashing his paychecks. His user page on Wikia showed his real name, and Somey noticed this in January 2007. I had spent at least ten hours in previous months trying to find Essjay's real name on faculty lists, based on his claimed credentials. Needless to say, I got nowhere.
Frankly, unless Foundation66 has Mark Binmore on the payroll, then we're nearly back to page one of this thread. That was when tarantino discovered that most of those Lee Dennison edits on Wikipedia were made from a Foundation66 computer by someone using the name "Mark Binmore."