QUOTE(ColScott @ Mon 26th April 2010, 4:11pm)
I want the bio deleted permanently. Tell me what to do. Contact Godwin? Great I'll do that now. What is the preferred method?
I'm no lawyer, but here is my gut instinct of how to proceed. Keep in mind that Godwin will deliberately fail to respond if at all possible. A couple years ago I faxed a complaint to Godwin about a user who sent a fake DMCA complaint to my wikipedia-watch.org DNS provider, and this user even added the statement at the bottom that he swore that he was legit when he wasn't. I managed to identify the guy (a teenager in Australia who had pulled this stunt before on someone else), and all I wanted from Godwin was some sort of statement that the Foundation doesn't condone this behavior. I wanted to send a copy to the headmaster at the kid's boarding school. I never heard back from anyone at the Foundation. Don't leave Godwin any wiggle room and then wait around for 30 days expecting to hear from him. I think he might be a snake.
Unless anyone has a better idea, I'd call
this number. It's the general Foundation number, so whoever answers might not even recognize the name "Mike Godwin." Tell them you have to talk to Mike Godwin. If you get to Godwin (good luck!) then ask Godwin for a street address for legal service. They have a registered agent for DMCA stuff, but that's probably not what you want. You want contact info for a process server, and you want to be sure you get either a signature from Godwin or from his authorized agent, or know that a process server in the flesh delivered your document to Godwin. Also ask Godwin for a better telephone number so that you can call back and confirm that he received the document. Godwin should be cooperative — after all, he gets overpaid to perform this function for the Foundation.
I'd very briefly lay out the evidence that suggests that User:Erik set you up, and that User:Erik may even be implicated in attempted identity theft in the matter of one Erik Kraft of Chicago. Don't get too specific — just say that you have circumstantial evidence of this, and that the situation has caused both you and reportedly also Mr. Kraft some pain and suffering, and that you wish to seek restitution for damages by pursuing all legal means to identify the perpetrator, User:Erik. It's not really Godwin's role to evaluate your evidence. If he thinks it is, then he's protecting a Wikipedia user and Section 230 immunity becomes more complicated than it already is.
Ask specifically for all IP addresses for User:Erik that can be found in the logs maintained by any of the Wikimedia Foundation's employees. These employees would normally be the system administrators who maintain the servers and ultimately control access to this data. You want a date/time stamp for each edit as far back as the logs go (this will probably be not more than six months). Set a deadline for Godwin's response.
What you are requesting is more comprehensive than the usual checkuser data. Normally a checkuser would say that this guy is not this other guy, based on the tools they used to do the checking. You want more than this, so explain that your impression is that it would not be sufficient to simply request a checkuser on User:Erik through normal Wikipedia channels. In other words, you have not made such a request through normal channels, and you don't see why you should.
Make a copy of your document and post it here or on your own forum.
You can always change your mind later and also request a checkuser through normal channels.