Thomas Dalton wrote:
Not really. However long the RfC turns out to be it's not going to change the simple fact that EssJay is still only one person. The lack of evidence that others have done this only tells me that this is a one-off situation.
Essjay is one person out of maybe half a dozen with a similar level of responsibility. 1 out of 6 is quite a high rate...
I wasn't aware that we had identified anothe 5 users who had falsified credentials, but even so your inference is somewhat strangely backwards. It means that if we had identified only one other the rate of 1 in 2 would be even worse! The more important and useful statistic is the number of thes people as a ratio of total editors.
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