One of us might point out that if you do a
Google search on the words "erik chicago," Restless Bee doesn't appear until the bottom of Page 2 - but that's still fairly high, and more importantly, it's currently the first result in which a full name starting with "Erik" is associated with an internet-related profession (that of "web designer"). So, if I had been calling myself "Erik" on Wikipedia, and I knew that a CheckUser would geolocate me to Chicago, and I needed to quickly find someone's identity to use as an online disguise, that would be the first one to come up.
That doesn't mean they're not the same guy, though. Still, if he really is User:Erik, you'd think the "Restless Bee" guy would show a greater interest in big budget comic-book movies
somewhere on the web, even if it's not necessarily on his
business website.
QUOTE(ColScott @ Sat 24th April 2010, 7:20pm)
All I can say is if we got the wrong ERIK
then how come the clown just fucking RETIRED
Well, again... putting aside the timing considerations, once he realized his little disguise gambit wasn't working quite as perfectly as he'd expected, he might well have decided it was time to disappear as that account - it's just a Wikipedia user account, after all, one with no admin rights. You know, wait three months, start over, and next time around, keep your head down and you'll probably pass your RfA with no trouble at all -
then start fiddling with highly contentious BLP's.