Leo Trollstoy - still no evidence presented. Re: [WikiEN-l] Yes, A Reincarnation

Nikola Smolenski smolensk at eunet.yu
Mon Jun 14 08:46:53 UTC 2004


On Sunday 13 June 2004 21:19, Mark Richards wrote:
> Well, assuming you have access to more information
> than I do, because what has been published is precious
> flimsy, I'm prepared to take your word for it on JRRT,
> but what about LT? I see no connection in edits.

In this and future cases, would this formula be acceptable as an evidence?

Wikipedia has n users which have "Troll" in their username, and exists for 
time t.

Therefore, on average, user with "Troll" in its username is created every t/n.

If an user with "Troll" in it username is created let the T be the time 
between its creation and banning of the last user with "Troll" in its 
username.

Then, p=((t/n)/2)/T represents probability that the user is previous user.

If the probability is higher then some value (say 10), ban the user. There's 
only 10/p chance that you are wrong.

(I am not a statistician but surely someone can check and improve this.)





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