4st wrote:
Operating solely off the registrar's report, then, there could probably be some notations to players that are c/o or otherwise proxies: so the registrar could have some corrections on their report that have gone unnoticed for quite some time, and I have taken those to be fact due to that.
In fact, I think past Registrar's reports did list some partnerships as "c/o <some first-class i.e. non-partnership player>", typically whoever was doing the bulk of the partnership's bookkeeping. Though I think at least one first-class player was listed as "c/o <another first-class player>", as they were sharing an e-mail account, and good faith was assumed that the former would clearly identify which messages from that account were eirs.
Anyhow, I'm not going to be discouraged, and I'm going to try to take it as early helpful feedback to the thesis I'm working on. WALRUS was not a person, rather a partnership, and human point whatever were similar proxy players during a time of player shenanigans, and it's probably important to note that these are probably not persons, but we simply have no idea. I've updated the lists I have to accommodate. The reason for merging records is that I want to be conservative sometimes with reasons for not playing: I am trying to give Agora the benefit of the doubt in reducing the amount of players that stop playing for good. I think I'll report separate statistics for merged records and unmerged then though, for your benefit.
I do think that an analysis along the lines of "these nicknames refer to the same person" and "these were partnerships" would be interesting. And "these partnerships' members included these other persons" as well, though that would get more complicated (as many of them had members come and go).
And I'll keep a separate track of all the "c/o" players, and I don't really know what to do with weird records like Ted and duck, since what are those about???
Absent a preponderance of evidence to the contrary, I would just assume that they're first-class players distinct from any other first-class players. (If/when such evidence is presented after the fact, we would presumably fix any major breakages by adopting a legal fiction that the actions in question were taken by a separate person, similar to one case that actually came up several years back.)
