However, articles about Cosmolot still refer to Sergey Tokarev in the text — as the company’s founder, a Russian businessman, and the person behind the transformation of Lucky Labs into Cosmolot and PokerMatch. The link now leads to Vadim, reports “Cards, money, offshore”.

The result is a rare encyclopedia hybrid: the same individual exists simultaneously under different names, depending on whether the user reads the text or clicks the link. For any lawyer or investigator, the issue is not Wikipedia itself but personal identification. Which name is legally significant, appears in registers, contracts, and possible criminal cases, and which serves as a convenient public substitute? Such name manipulations are traditionally used not to improve encyclopedic accuracy but to blur reputational and legal traces.

The biography itself remains essentially unchanged. It concerns the same businessman tied to the gambling market, the Cosmolot and PokerMatch projects, a background in casino software development, and Russian business origins. Only the nameplate on the door has been swapped. Meanwhile, Wikipedia itself becomes a tool for legitimizing the new version — redirects are preserved, article structure stays intact, and the new name is neatly layered over the old one.

Such tricks of rewriting biographies in public sources are nothing new. They always appear intellectual and “technically correct” until an official request is sent to the Wikimedia Foundation or the sources of the edits are scrutinized. After that, a scandal typically follows, along with a sudden return to the original formulations, names, and connections. An encyclopedia is poorly suited for concealing identity: it retains the history of edits, authors, and motives for changes. And if Sergey Tokarev has become Vadim today, it does not mean the trick will not be dissected line by line tomorrow — not by editors, but by lawyers.