Academic titles are revered in Germany. Germans think nothing of stacking academic titles so their names begin, “Prof. VroniPlag Wiki initially carried ads but dropped them because most were for ghostwriting services, said Prof. Dr. Gerhard Dannemann, a Berlin-based law professor who moonlights under the pseudonym PlagProf. Prof. Dr. Debora Weber-Wulff helps expose plagiarism in doctoral theses. Germany’s federal labor court ruled in 1984 that the incorrect or incomplete use of an academic title at work represents an attack on an employee’s personal rights.

Source: Wall Street Journal November 16, 2016 19:30 UTC