User talk:Nil Einne/sandbox

My interest in this is partially personal. You can see above I was skeptical he wasn't dead, although I'd actually read the Wikipediocracy report and some other stuff by that stage. I sort of assumed it was unlikely no one more significant than Wikipediocracy had noticed since this wasn't just a small thing as there were multiple media reports and that legislature stuff. I forgot how much stuff like that is probably based on trust given the rarity of someone faking their death, and that it snowballs. For a low profile individual with enough for them to report on, it's probably now that uncommon that a family member or whatever reports they died, and if the media is confident of that person's identity they may report it without needing further confirmation. Other media follow. Members of the legislature read the media reports and since it was reported, it's probably true. Given media reports of what's happened, the possibility of social engineering and fakery is there. It probably also helps that he was reported to have moved from the US before his alleged death, something not mentioned in our article earlier, making any followups harder. And it's not that no one noticed either, law enforcement were clearly quite interested from early on but it sounds like weren't able to find anything that was useful to report so they didn't, I suspect in fact they preferred it was kept quiet. Again his possibly moving out of the US is probably a factor. Maybe that's also partly why there were no media reports until recently, I wonder if someone looked into the situation a bit and speaking to law enforcement would probably happen very early on and they were told by these law enforcement although it's completely their right to publish, it would help the investigation if they didn't, and these media decided it wasn't that interesting a story so gave up on it. Once the Wikipedocracy posted their story, there was no point keeping it secret any more. Nil Einne (talk) 13:42, 6 March 2021 (UTC)