There's never been any secret as to who runs snopes.com. If you look at the bottom of each page, it says who wrote the page. It's usually Barb Mikkelson.
I have found Snopes to be pretty objective. If there's some basis to a legend, they usually note it. You don't need to have a team of trained investigators to do this, just a lot of patience and modest amount of common sense.
I would never call snopes the "final word" on anything. Nobody is infallible. But it is a very quick way to debunk something. More importantly, they give you enough information that you can easily verify the facts for yourself.
As far as Wikipedia "getting to the bottom" of Snopes, that's an absurd statement. Wikipedia is nothing more than a collection of things that people put into it. It is quite easy to create a totally bogus article in Wikipedia, or to vandalize an existing one. Someone with a bone to pick with Snopes can go into Wikipedia and slander the Mikkelsons with impunity.
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