> Can anybody authoritatively confirm or deny this supposed difference 
> regarding magnetic pole definitions?

Someone else thinks so

http://edhiker.home.comcast.net/North_Pole_Positive_or_Negative.html

Could just be a repeated typo though

Two other little-known facts - in France, maglev trains are stuck
firmly to the rails, and Pere Noel comes from the South Pole on
a sled pulled by Rudolph The Red-Nosed Penguin

How strange. Like the Green For Stop thing

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