` :I concur with the above analysis, as I have already said before. The crux of the above issue simply refers to the fact that Nicky Bird wrote that in Beever's book ``Statistics proliferate, and are unverifiable``, and the text inserted into the Wikipedia article said that this same estimate ``has been questioned by Nicky Bird``. As noted, at one point Nicky Bird's article was directly quoted so that readers could understand his viewpoint in his own words. YMB29 could possibly have been sanctioned for many things, but I still can't understand how an indefinite ban for misrepresentation was justified. I wonder if YMB29's ban can be reduced to ``time served``?  `