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 ::::Actually we really don't have much of a way to prove people are who they say they are, outside of the fairly narrow mechanism of WP:OTRS.  I mean, there's just no way for me to tell if a photo of an Albanian ID card is legitimate or not - so we don't organize our site around knowing who everyone is, even if there are admins and other volunteers who love the quixotic hunt to find ""sockpuppets"".  We organize around what we can get from known third party sources.  It wouldn't matter if you weren't Mr. Baressi; a complaint about a hostile biased BLP to Jimbo Wales' forum always gets the troops moving, no matter who makes it.   "