My Google+ profile has just been suspended for having an unusual name.

[zestyping]

If you would like to help me get it unsuspended, please post a note here to help provide evidence that "Ping" is the "name [my] friends, family or co-workers usually call [me]" (as it says in the User Conduct and Content Policy). If you are comfortable identifying yourself and your relationship to me, that would help too. Thanks!

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[ext_226279]

To whom it may concern:

I've known Ping since 2001, when we were both grad students in the computer science department at the University of California, Berkeley. We took a class together. I can confirm that Ping was the name that professional colleagues in the computer science department addressed him by when we were classmates, and that has continued to be true to the best of my knowledge.

Tim Chevalier
catamorphism at gmail

Ping

[idolstar]

I met Ping approximately 2 years ago and consider myself a friend of his. Ping was first introduced to me as "Ping", I have known him as "Ping" and continue to refer to him as "Ping."

Sincerely,

Christopher De Vries

[metamouse]

I've known Ping since 2002 and have lived in the same house as him for about half of that time. Literally everyone I've seen him interact with knows him as "Ping" -- coworkers, friends from every social circle, students he taught as a grad student, family members, etc.

-David Wallace
davidwallace at gmail

Real name

[anonymous]

I have known Ping since 1992 and while it is part of his whole first name (Ka-Ping) I don't know that I have ever called him by his full name.
Rachael Ward

[anonymous]

Ping is my friend and he is a real boy.