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Alan Mcilwraith (born 3 March 1978) is a former call centre worker from Glasgow, Scotland, who was exposed as a military imposter by a tabloid newspaper, after he passed himself off as a much-decorated British Army officer. He convinced a number of charities and media outlets that he was "Captain Sir Alan Mcilwraith, KBE, DSO, MC". The National Children's Home charity invited him to the Woman of Influence Awards at the Barony Halls. Celebrity magazine ''No1'' carried a picture of him which was captioned "Lady Shona () and Sir Alan McIlwraith", showing him wearing the dress uniform of the Parachute Regiment with medals. ==Mcilwraith's entry in Wikipedia== Mcilwraith created a Wikipedia article about himself at 18:28 GMT on 5 October 2005, which read as follows (spelling mistakes included): Mcilwraith also uploaded to Wikipedia a photograph of himself wearing military uniform and medals. The article was created from an IP address registered to AOL, but Mcilwraith also apparently edited the article under the Wikipedia username MilitaryPro. On 10 October 2005 the article was tagged as needing citations for verification, and on 20 October 2005 the article was tagged for deletion due to concerns about its reliability. The article was deleted three times and protected from recreation on 17 February 2006. When news of the hoax broke in April 2006 the article was revived, stating that the previous versions had been written by Mcilwraith himself. When the article was created, Mcilwraith was described as a CBE, but by December 2005 he had purportedly been elevated to the rank of KBE. On 4 October 2005, MilitaryPro added the name of Alan Mcilwraith to the List of honorary British Knights in Wikipedia. The edit was reverted two hours later, with a user commenting that "Google has never heard of him — pretty good for someone supposedly knighted this year."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=List of honorary British knights and dames: Difference between revisions )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Alan Mcilwraith」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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