From Fibs in the Wikipedia:

Martin Heidegger: Some of the faculty at Freiburg called him ’Edmund II’, a monicker that Heidegger found demeaning.
Reverted: 05:30
In the edit summary, the user removing the fib called it “undue weight to trivial assertion.”

Edmund II, of course, was the king defeated by Canute's invasion. Which shows that, umm, an apophantic cannot hold back the tide of fact checkers.  ¶ 9:37 AM