[WikiEN-l] Essjay RFC deleted

[Pedro Sanchez]

On 3/7/07, Ken Arromdee <arromdee at rahul.net> wrote:
> On Tue, 6 Mar 2007, Gwern Branwen wrote:
> > > 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...
> >
> > Come on. That's a [[Hasty generalization]]. What if Essjay hadn't
> > messed up? Then we'd have a 0% failure rate!
>
> "If we didn't fail as much as we actually did, we'd have a much lower
> failure rate" isn't an interesting deduction.
>
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half a dozen is a too low number. There is over 50 people with
potential access to checkuser, oversight if you count all wikis. So
it's 1 out of 50.  Number increases many times more if you count
bureaucrats and other positions above sysop

Recall that english wikipedia is not equivalent to wikipedia.