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by londgine 1271 days ago
after all that work, you don't even want to write here who that person is?
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Directly? No. I'll explain why.

There is a prominent programming competition which was operated by the ACM for many years. If you find the Italian language version of the article on Wikipedia, check the very first edit from 2012. He was the IP editor who created the article.

With that information, you can search for a current draft article on the English website. Again, the IP editor is him. This opens up information about some of his current websites posing as official websites. These websites include claims about him being a consulate, a knighted individual, defamatory articles targeting people who called out his shady political campaign in 2018, and his false claims to a particular academic pedigree.

Should that draft article disappear, you can simply find archived versions of the most recent version using popular web archival tools.

Dig for articles about his 2018 political campaign in the country matching the first language mention above and which deals with gratis "flights".

If you dig enough, you'll find links back to an article in a prominent magazine in that country. The article does not exist on the magazine's website, but you can use the URL to find archives using popular web archival tools.

Take that journalist's name and search for "blog". That's his defamatory website for her. It's just the tip of the iceberg of his attack on her.

This is one of six current defamatory websites that I know about targeting specific individuals and/or organizations which are operated by him. This doesn't include the prior existing websites, outside articles, or fake reviews.

I'm not interested in becoming one of his targets.

If you have all of that documented, there are plenty of youtubers who would probably love to do a random rabbithole/deepdive video on the subject and let you collab anonymously.
"Submission declined on 13 November 2022". Surprised they tried to get a BLP given the wealth of unflattering press articles.
This is only the most recent attempt. It was proceeded by a successful publication of the exact same article to mainspace, but it was removed because the account used to create it was linked to a previous blocked sock.

If you review the history of the article proper, you'll see a history of creation and deletions. There are also past attempts in Italian, Japanese, and Simple English.

If you use COIBot reports to search for his various domains, you'll find Wikipedia is littered with his activity.