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-Was the protagonist of the movie "sherlock holmes' smarter brother" ?
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-Speculation: was Mycroft from the Heinlein novel an inspiration for the name Microsoft?
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-likely not. [[User:Pedant|Pedant]] 06:31, 5 Aug 2004 (UTC)
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-No. In "The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes Smarter Brother", the character is named Sigerson Holmes. And I doubt seriously that there was any link to Microsoft. [[User:RickK|Rick]][[User talk:RickK|K]] 06:35, Aug 5, 2004 (UTC)
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-There is a story in my family that Mycroft Holmes is named after a William Mycroft who played cricket for Derbyshire County Cricket Club in the 1870's. Is there any truth in this?
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-Wasn't M in ''The League'' really Moriarty, but everyone thought it was Mycroft? I don't really remember it was like 2 years since i read it. [[User:Gkhan|Gkhan]] 16:54, Dec 30, 2004 (UTC)
-:Yes, Moriarty was M to begin with, but Mycroft became M in issue #6. The statement in the article that Mycroft Holmes appears as M in ''The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen'' is the truth and nothing but the truth; it's not the whole truth, but the whole truth would be a spoiler and is arguably not necessary in this context. --[[User:Paul A|Paul A]] 03:10, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)
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-Why has this article been tagged with the "unverified" label? Which bit specifically is the problem? --[[User:Paul A|Paul A]] 03:28, 7 September 2006 (UTC)
-:I'm removing it.  Yes, we need supporting references. No, we don't need ambiguous ugly tags. [[User:Ike9898|ike9898]] 15:09, 7 October 2006 (UTC)
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-There are at least TWO Wikipedians who have usernames based on this character, although the other one is delete happy and frequently vandalizes select pages . . .  Oh well. --[[User:Mycroft.Holmz|Mycroft.Holmz]] 17:37, 30 October 2006 (UTC)
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-Does anyone happen to know what the word/ name "mycroft" means etymologically? Is it orginally referring to the place of origin of some person or to the profession of his ancestors? I'm curious to learn, so please don't let me in the lurch.