Adelson-Velsky and Evgenii Landis were not the ones who named their tree the "AVL tree".
In my "crackpot index", item 20 says:
20 points for naming something after yourself. (E.g., talking about the "The Evans Field Equation" when your name happens to be Evans.)
https://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/crackpot.html for the curious (on that version it's item 25 though :o )
The last line of the introduction
> By doing so, we aim to provide a novel paradigm [...]
also made me think of item 19 on your list:
> 10 points for claiming that your work is on the cutting edge of a "paradigm shift".
I'm sad though that you didn't call it the "Baez crackpot index"...
I find it especially strange that two of the authors gave their first name to the algorithm.
Like RSA?
RSA was also not given that name by its authors, the name came later, which is usually the case.
In the original paper they do not give it any name: https://people.csail.mit.edu/rivest/Rsapaper.pdf