User talk:NikeDattani

Possible inappropriate username
Welcome to Wikipedia. I noticed that your username, "NikeDattani", may not meet Wikipedia's username policy because it is the same as the name of an article to which you have contributed (i.e.: Nike Dattani). If you are not this person, this may be a violation of Username policy, specifically WP:MISLEADNAME for Usernames that impersonate other people. On the other hand, if you are this person, then editing the article of which you are the subject may violate Conflict of interest. If you believe that your username does not violate our policy, please leave a note here explaining why. As an alternative, you may ask for a change of username by completing the form at Special:GlobalRenameRequest, or you may simply create a new account for editing. Thank you for your attention to this. Reidgreg (talk) 04:25, 30 October 2019 (UTC)

December 2019
This account has been blocked indefinitely from editing Wikipedia because the username, NikeDattani, matches the name of a well-known, living person.

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User A.S. Brown has spoken with Nike Dattani, who complained that this account does not actually belong to him
user A.S. Brown wrote on 30 October 2019:

"I am not Dr. Nike Dattani, but he he spoken to me to express some concerns about the contents of this article. In particular, he has concern about an account whose has appropriated the name of the subject of this account. He has asked me to speak here to ask if it is possible this account have it's user name changed as its edits imply views that are not his own.--A.S. Brown (talk) 03:23, 30 October 2019 (UTC)"

It seems quite obvious that the user is NOT actually Nike Dattani. The user has only 5 edits in total, and all 5 of them seem to be an attempt at damaging Nike Dattani's reputation. The most recent one was on the page "Hierarchical Equations of Motion" and all the user did was remove the entire paragraph that cited some of Dattani's papers: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hierarchical_equations_of_motion&diff=prev&oldid=921150731. Now if this user really was Dattani, why would he remove that paragraph which cites his own papers? Furthermore for more than a year the "Nike Dattani" page listed "Kyoto University" as one of his former institutions, and there was a valid reference/citation given, and the fake user NikeDattani made an edit which simply removed "Kyoto University" from his list of former institutions. I don't see why Nike Dattani (the real subject of the article) would want to remove Kyoto University from his former institutions list, unless he was embarrassed about being there, but he has listed Kyoto University himself in his LinkedIn profile, and there's so many online interviews and publications where he lists himself as being from Kyoto University, so it doesn't make sense that he would try to use Wikipedia to erase this. I am 100% sure that user NikeDattani is not actually Nike Dattani.

It should be considered whether to change the name of the account or remove it all together, since the account was just made for 5 edits in late October 2019, and has never been seen ever again or ever before, so they are unlikely to come back to fix their account name. In the meantime the real Nike Dattani's reputation could be being hurt since some people might think that he made the account. Dr. Universe (talk) 17:07, 22 December 2019 (UTC)