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As this thread has mutated into questions about identities, my CCMB name is coined after Dewi Lewis who was sports editor of the Western Mail and wrote on Cardiff City and Wales football. He was also my uncle. He wrote under the name of Citizen and one book - A History Of Cardiff City - he wrote was under the name of Citizen. The cover is my profile picture.

Weirdly, it was a post by Cyclops asking who Citizen was that showed up in a Google search one day that prompted me to make my first post on here to answer the question (after lurking for years).

Hence, Citizen's Nephew.

Why Dewi chose Citizen I don't know. I never got to ask him.
I think 'Citizen' was the resident non de plume for the City reporter going back to the 1920's, so your uncle inherited it so to speak. I actually remember your uncle, though not personally. He certainly like to have a drink between opening hours in the afternoons, and frequented a couple of the 'private' clubs that I was taken to by older colleagues many, many years ago !