# have you ever wiki searched your name? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 29, 2012, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494 "2012-12-29T15:44:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rubixcube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Rubixcube](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubixcube)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/21 "2012-12-29T23:47:00Z")
No results on wiki, I tried changing my oddly spelled last name to it’s most common variant, but still no results. A general Google search only brings up some Christian musician’s Twitter, a few random Facebook pages, and two high school athletes. So my names pretty boring apparently. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 29, 2012, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/22 "2012-12-29T23:55:44Z")
Only other person with my name was a distant cousin who was of some significance in the world of local Rugby. I, on the other hand, hate rugby with the fiery passion of a billion suns, so it’s a little bit annoying when people Google me and get a lot of nonsense about some stupid game I don’t give a shit about. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/23 "2012-12-30T00:00:47Z")
I am the only one who has ever lived with my exact first and last name. There was a dentist in NY who died several years ago with my last name and a variant spelling of my first name. ---
**Author:** ![Sahirrnee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sahirrnee/32/13937_2.png) [@Sahirrnee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sahirrnee)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/24 "2012-12-30T00:09:47Z")
Just did. No page for my name. According to google I am the only one of me in the US. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/25 "2012-12-30T00:43:54Z")
Thanks for that Googlism link. I am pleased to report that my real name returns so many hits that I am comfortably ensconced in obscurity should evil forces attempt to Google me. Also, some of me are not especially nice “…is a fucking bastard” shows up. ---
**Author:** ![EmilyG](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/emilyg/32/364_2.png) [@EmilyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EmilyG)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/26 "2012-12-30T00:48:48Z")
Just tried it and got no hits. ---
**Author:** ![SCAdian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scadian/32/3292_2.png) [@SCAdian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SCAdian)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/27 "2012-12-30T01:29:48Z")
Wikipedia has nothing for my name, though the Spanish Wiki has an article on my father. Nothing from the Googlism link, either. ---
**Author:** ![etv78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d78d45/32.png) [@etv78](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/etv78)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/28 "2012-12-30T04:34:11Z")
Googling returns me, wiki returns nada. ---
**Author:** ![elbows](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b3f665/32.png) [@elbows](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elbows)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/29 "2012-12-30T04:37:09Z")
What’s a wiki search. ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/30 "2012-12-30T04:39:23Z")
> [@elbows](#): > > What’s a wiki search. Go to Wikipedia and use their search function on your name: top right. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/31 "2012-12-30T04:55:35Z")
There were no results matching the query. The page “Ethilrist” does not exist. The page “\” does not exist. So, I don’t exist. ---
**Author:** ![ryan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a8b319/32.png) [@ryan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ryan)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 6:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/32 "2012-12-30T06:02:18Z")
A soccer player from the thirties and the _nom de guerre_ of a Medal of Honor winner during the Boxer Rebellion. Weird, I have a common name. Just a bunch of mediocre folks I guess. ---
**Author:** ![Atomic\_Mama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5ac83/32.png) [@Atomic\_Mama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atomic_Mama)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 9:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/33 "2012-12-30T09:05:58Z")
I “exist” in wiki, for something I did in my wild and crazy youth, which still continues … although I am no longer wild, crazy (but that’s debatable), or youthful. Googlism doesn’t know me for squat! ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/34 "2012-12-30T17:24:49Z")
I have no entry under my name (not even a namesake), but I show up as a _reference_ in a number of entries in the Scottish Wiki. ---
**Author:** ![DrFidelius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drfidelius/32/3447_2.png) [@DrFidelius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrFidelius)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/35 "2012-12-30T18:28:58Z")
Just Wiki’d my last name. Four hits, no pages. One for my cousin the deacon, two for his son the middle-school principal, and one for our other cousin’s son the jazz musician. “Fidelius” gets 14 hits, mostly Potter-related, and three from Jack Vance. I have made no impact on the Wikiverse at all. ---
**Author:** ![FlyByNight512](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/82dd89/32.png) [@FlyByNight512](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyByNight512)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/36 "2012-12-30T19:57:17Z")
No pages for my name, though my first and last names show up separately in a list of [people executed in Texas between 1990 and 1999 and their victims](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_individuals_executed_in_Texas,_1990%E2%80%931999). :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Jackson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doctor_jackson/32/32_2.png) [@Doctor\_Jackson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Jackson)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/37 "2012-12-30T21:08:05Z")
Nuttin’. I got nuttin’. ---
**Author:** ![Hari\_Seldon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hari_seldon/32/5173_2.png) [@Hari\_Seldon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hari_Seldon)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/38 "2012-12-30T22:26:23Z")
On wiki, I found: Australian historian mathematician software engineer American pop music composer Treasury official one of which is the real me. I once saw a photo of one of the others in the NYTimes. Gave me a turn. But he had a middle initial (I don’t). ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/77aa72/32.png) [@Fluffy\_PickleSniffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy_PickleSniffer)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/39 "2012-12-30T23:17:28Z")
I just tried googlism on my name and it only had one line. It said I was “soapy in the shower” Wikipedia doesn’t know me. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2012, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494/40 "2012-12-30T23:26:14Z")
> [@Hari\_Seldon](#): > > one of which is the real me. Ooh, what pop songs have you composed? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-ever-wiki-searched-your-name/645494.md?page=3)