Thanks for the links. Sorry
danny la rouge I forgot to add the quote.
I think there's a lot hanging on 'was Jesus a real person' and whilst it doesn't matter to me, it matters a whole lot to a whole load of people who (and this is key)
have a great deal invested in it, emotionally, culturally and intellectually. I've spent years looking for proof of Jesus-as-a-real-person, I've been doing it all my life because at one time I too had a lot invested in the matter. I've read those wiki articles there and there's nothing I (along with everyone else) haven't encountered before - but what really matters is there's nothing conclusive, or even really convincing. Which, when I consider the stature of this man (if man he was) is astonishing.
So yeah sure, it's possible to believe Jesus was a real bloke, billions do, and if you don't look too hard at the evidence, fluff a few may-have-beens into probably-was's and ignore the fact that for hundreds of years thousands of scholars have made it their lives' works to prove Jesus was real and still haven't come up with anything better than may-have-beens in the acres of Christian and Flavian propaganda, it's an easy belief.
tl;dr, not good enough, unless you want it to be true.