I'm still puzzled about how Kraft got to the relevant Wikipedia pages so quickly.
15:10 UTC Kraft receives two 5-minute phone calls, 30 mins apart, in London from Murphy. Murphy only identifies himself as 'Don'. However, Murphy did say the problem was with Wikipedia user 'Erik'. Either Kraft assumed the spelling was like his own name, or Murphy explicitly says this.
16:01 Kraft locates user:Erik's Wikipedia page and leaves a message there, using an IP (London). Immediately above this there is the bit that says this
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==Wikipedia:Administrators'_noticeboard/Incidents#Legal_threat_regarding_image==
I've re-opened the discussion on the grounds that the removal of the image doesn't seem to meet any criteria for removal. Woogee (talk) 20:47, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
See Talk:Don Murphy#Photo. The licensing is appropriate, but editors did not feel it was necessary to include the image. Feel free to counter them. Erik (talk | contribs) 20:49, 23 April 2010 (UTC)
I hope that's not your real address that they pulled up on the website. (IMG:
smilys0b23ax56/default/unhappy.gif) SilverserenC 07:11, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
Yeah, they're in the process of outing me. Hopefully they won't harass my fiancee... Erik (talk | contribs) 10:12, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=357990738This does explain how Kraft got Murphy's full name. It also includes a link to the ANI page, which would, at that time, have taken him here
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...regarding_image .
16:10. Nine minutes later, Kraft has found the thread on Murphy's forum which contained his name, number and address, and says he has received two calls in the last hour from 'Don'. I am still puzzled how he found this so quickly. There is no link to it on Erik's talk page, nor on ANI, although the discussion does refer to its existence. The link itself was not posted until 18:26.
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=...oldid=358054017The thread is not easy to find. Even if you get to Murphy's website, all you get is this
http://donmurphy.net/, and the thread itself is buried in the 'movies' section.
I still don't understand how Kraft got there so fast.
16:10 Then Kraft posts to Arcayne's talk page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contr...ns/95.177.43.18 saying "I'm writing because you seem to be involved in a feud with a wikipedia user named Erik. Various people seem to be mad at Erik; I've received two extremely confusing phone calls from a Don in the past hour. "
I don't understand why he should have located Arcayne of all people. Yes, Erik was involved in an edit war with Arcayne, but how did Kraft know this? There is only one section on user:Erik's talk page that involves Arcayne. Did he consult edit histories? Yet he told Brandt yesterday (26 April) that he is "unfamiliar with consulting a recent archive, or with researching edit histories".
So I am still mystified. How did Kraft, 30 minutes after the last call from someone called 'Don', find all the right pages on Wikipedia, and Murphy's forum?
All the other evidence seems to point to Kraft and user:Erik being different people, I agree. But is there some relationship between them?
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