IIRC, Polarik was some kind of name that the Polland family used back in Poland or something like that, which was changed at Ellis Island or some such according to Polland. So Polland says, somewhat disingenuously, that he could claim that Polarik was a “real name.”
BTW, I chose not to ping Polarik or other FReepers who have posted intentional lies or abuse and, sadly, Polarik falls into that category, whatever the value of his research into reverse-engineering the SFBC. This is the same reason that I do not reply to FN or BD.
Polarik made false claims about the origin of a certain baby footprint image on a certain BC on a thread that got pulled (and on which I was zotted).