Hope this helps;
Dead Ringer (disambiguation) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Ringer_(disambiguation)
Wringer (disambiguation) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wringer_(disambiguation)
Dead Ringer (disambiguation) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Ringer_(disambiguation)
Wringer (disambiguation) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wringer_(disambiguation)
There's hardly any worse "source" for etymology than that kind of jargon.
> "ringer" was a late nineteenth-century term for a duplicate, usually with implications of dishonesty, ...
Is that it?
> Hope this helps
Not in the slightest, no. If anything it confirms my bias that editors are gullible.
Which, to get back onto topic, would mean to think that the motivation was not exactly what is reported here, but something come a long way.
Care to provide attribution links for that claim?
etymology:'Dead Ringer'
etymology:'Wringer'
it would seem pointless on my part to continue dialog with you.