Pi zero separated his wiki-identity and real life identity. When his family told me about his death, I contacted a number of people who knew Dr Shutt academica

Pi zero separated his wiki-identity and real life identity. When his family told me about his death, I contacted a number of people who knew Dr Shutt academically. They were unaware of his work on-wiki just like most Wikimedians didn't know about his work outsite Wikinews. It was my fortune to have known about his work both on and off wiki.