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CHANGELOG.md and CONTRIBUTORS.md cite PR #632 and GitHub user @Voyagerroc-Lab, neither of which exist #689

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Where: CHANGELOG.md (v2.3.0 entry, "roc-curve-auc.md" bullet, line ~29), CONTRIBUTORS.md (line ~401-405, "Erol Tasci - [@Voyagerroc-Lab]" entry, and the Explainers CODEOWNERS-attribution table at line ~416).

The gap: both files credit a fix to explainers/roc-curve-auc.md as "closes #623, by @Voyagerroc-Lab, #632". Neither the PR nor the GitHub account actually exist.

Repro:

$ gh pr view 632 --repo yakew7/Fair-Code
GraphQL: Could not resolve to a PullRequest with the number of 632.

$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n" https://github.com/yakew7/Fair-Code/pull/632
404

$ gh api users/Voyagerroc-Lab
{"message":"Not Found", "status":"404"}

$ gh api "search/users?q=Voyagerroc-Lab"
(empty result)

$ gh api repos/yakew7/Fair-Code/commits/530b58d/pulls
(empty - zero associated pull requests)

$ gh api repos/yakew7/Fair-Code/issues/623/timeline --jq '.[]|select(.event=="closed")|{event,source}'
{"event":"closed","source":null}   # closed directly, not via any linked PR

The local commit (530b58d, "docs: clarify COMPAS audit target (#632)") is real and its content matches what CHANGELOG claims - but GitHub confirms it was never part of any pull request, #632 was never a real issue/PR number in this repo, and the credited account is unreachable via both the users API and search API. Every other community-PR attribution in the same v2.3.0 changelog block (#634, #633, #631, #630, #629) checked out as genuine, so this is an isolated fabrication, not a pattern.

Fix direction: remove the false "@Voyagerroc-Lab, #632" attribution from both files (and the Explainers CODEOWNERS-attribution table); credit the change as a direct/self-fix (no PR) like the other unattributed items in the same changelog entry, or investigate the actual authorship of commit 530b58d.

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