Hi again Bo [will just use the abbreviation for speed],
Not much time at the moment since I'm in the midst of a project but wanted to respond to a few points.
First of all, thanks for your kind, even-toned replies to my questions and expressions of  irritation. I DO think that WikiP should have an avenue of complaint for users  from my recent experience, it seems contributors can get stuck in an endless loop of Admins (or whatever titles you and your editorial colleagues have), never reaching someone with the authority to resolve complaints. You and others have referred vaguely to the "process" of Copyvio review, but I have no idea who does that, when they do it, or how to reach them to defend my position/claims.
1. I sometimes find a "You have a message waiting" notice. How is that genrated? Do you get this same notice when I post on your User page? Is there a way to send a messaage directly to you so it won't be visible to the world  e.g. if I needed to provide you an email address or something I didn't want posted here?
2. Regarding Crapsey. I did indeed check various sources in writing the article. And if you read the EB citation and my piece, you'll see that mine is quite different, not at all a sentence-by-sentence paraphrase. It differs in style and wording from the outset to the end and contains far more detail than EB. Moreover, Crapsey is a local legend in Rochester, and I had no need to consult Brittanica  I don't know how you folks access EB, but I stopped using it years ago when they went from a free to a pay service that only provides "teaser" articles that are virtually useless. Thus, the entry non-members get for Crapsey is the following truncated info:
http://www.britannica.com/eb/article?tocId=9125441
We have never been EB "trial" members or subscribers; it would appear that you folks at WikiP do have some sort of membership, however. Is that correct?
3. Regarding Sock Puppetting, I was adapting your own WikiP term for those who use "dummy" accounts (or have friends act in concert with them) to insure they get the posting they want. It was beginning to appear that your colleagues were teaming up in a Revert War. In fact, they did just that in another article we posted about area poet William Heyen  they kept Copyvio-ing it, though in fact it was written by us for our own journal, Exit Online. When I pointed this out, I was told, in effect, "Oh yeah? Well, prove it!"" I have no idea what sort of "proof" one can offer for owning someone one has posted to their own web site (or any other web site for that matter). More to the point, THEY offered no suggestions as to how one might "prove it." If you have an email address for someone at WikiP who oversees this sort of stuff, then let me know and we'll be happy to contact him/her.
4. As for "my article," I was referring to the fact that it's mine by virtue of the fact that I authored it. In fact, your own guidelines specifically state that the author of each edit is the author and has only granted a GFDL license, so that author can be said to be the owner of that particular edit. That could even be the whole article. For this reason, the authors don't have to comply with the GFDL requirements for their own writing - the GFDL license doesn't override their own rights to use their own work. They can also license it to any number of others under any other licenses they choose, since that's one of the rights authors have.
5. Thanks for your candor over concerns about EB suits over copyright. Maybe EB has folks that spend their days doing nothing but monitor WikiP, though I somehow doubt it since they would not have access to the same "new posting" info that you and your colleagues use to monitor postings. It would take an army of staff even to randomly check WikiP listings.
6. As for creating an account, in fact, my colleagues and I do have accounts and would, indeed, like the "credit" for our efforts. However, given the recent unpleasant incidents we've encountered that include threats of being blocked/blacklisted, I'm sure you can understand why anonymity seems preferable for the moment.
7. I'll have to check into templates. I suspected you might be using some sort of boilerplate, and this is precisely why using forms can be so dangerous.