The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a
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Delete I'd be willing to delete all lists of Wikipedians by edit count. Unless there's an automated method to update the edit counts without human intervention - and I don't think so - it's a waste of anyone's time to maintain these lists of Wikipedia trivia.
ShalomHello15:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete: Such lists as this help foster the idea that edit counts matter, that with higher edit counts you are somehow more important to the project or have a higher status simply by virtue of higher edit counts. This is inherently anti-wiki. Even if this list was routinely updated, it would still be a highly negative presence on the project. All good faith editors, whether making their first edit or 100 thousandth edit, are equals. --
Durin17:31, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Mark as historical. Created at a time when wikiholicism was more of an "in" concept, and people didn't take stupid things like edit count so damned seriously.
GracenotesT§17:34, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete we already have
Wikipedia: List of Wikipedians by number of edits, which is better. This page is way out of date, as a few of the users listed there are no longer administrators. Also, there are numerous new administrators who would be on there that aren't. Administrators really don't need their own edit list; stick to the main list please.
Acalamari18:14, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Tag as Historical There is no reason for deletion (in my opinion of course), but tag as historical because it might have intrest for people who like to read historical pages.--
PrestonH19:00, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Tag as historical/inactive. I don't see any harm in keeping this page around, and there are people who are interested in these sorts of statistics. ---
RockMFR19:09, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Many
Wikipedia statistics are kept in userspace these days (wouldn't be all that bad if all were). Therefore, userfy if anyone cares to update it (since it might be of statistical interest to some), otherwise delete.
Миша1320:49, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
I don't quite get the "having a special one for admins isn't right" argument - it's just another statistic, derived from a
bigger sample and cut down to a
smaller population. Being a matematician I may be biased (as all I see are figures representing certain truths), but still, where's the logic that makes it "not right"?
Миша1321:02, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
I think what Majorly is getting at is that pages like this make adminship seem more like a "rank" when it's not supposed to be, and shouldn't be treated as such. I may be wrong of course about Majorly's deletion reasoning. :)
Acalamari22:11, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete, don't tag - Per what Majorly meant to say (see Acalamari's clarification) - we really don't need adminship to be treated like a "rank" - and this list does that.
GiggyTalk00:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete straight up, and perhaps replace with a redirect to list of Wikipedians by number of edits. I don't see why an administrator's edit count matters any more than any other editor's. If it were a list of administrators by number of blocks/deletes/protections (which I think I've seen somewhere) then I could understand, but not edits. - Zeibura(
Talk)18:49, 11 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete, do not tag as historical. Wikipedia is
not a bureaucracy and a proliferation of "historical" pages carries no benefit. If this was a proposed policy or something of that nature, I'd agree. However, it's an outdated list of outdated statistics. — Black Falcon(
Talk)22:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Holy crap! I had over 64,000 edits last November? I haven't seen a count in so long, I had no idea I'd even passed 50k! Tag as Historical, might be useful to future Wikiologists.
bd2412T 23:33, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Delete, do not tag The idea of the page is so bad that it doesn't need to be archived; if some Wikipedian historian of future needs it, they can ask an admin then to userfy it.
Xoloz05:06, 14 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Why? Why would you want a separate list for administrators? Administrators are not supposed to be a separate "division" within Wikipedia. We do already have the
list of Wikipedians by number of edits. It's like creating a "list of male Wikipedians from Australia with brown hair by edit count". Melsaran15:41, 14 August 2007 (UTC)reply
That's the point of his comment, methinks. This page was once of interest, and it is no longer of interest to most people. Therefore, it should be tagged as historical. This is common procedure.
GracenotesT§16:22, 14 August 2007 (UTC)reply
But I cannot understand why it was once if interest. The page is inactive, yes, but I also think that it has to go because it is an unnecessary separate list for the editcounts administrators, implying that it is some special "division" within Wikipedia and encouraging editcountitis. Melsaran17:30, 14 August 2007 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellany page below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.
Delete I'd be willing to delete all lists of Wikipedians by edit count. Unless there's an automated method to update the edit counts without human intervention - and I don't think so - it's a waste of anyone's time to maintain these lists of Wikipedia trivia.
ShalomHello15:41, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete: Such lists as this help foster the idea that edit counts matter, that with higher edit counts you are somehow more important to the project or have a higher status simply by virtue of higher edit counts. This is inherently anti-wiki. Even if this list was routinely updated, it would still be a highly negative presence on the project. All good faith editors, whether making their first edit or 100 thousandth edit, are equals. --
Durin17:31, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Mark as historical. Created at a time when wikiholicism was more of an "in" concept, and people didn't take stupid things like edit count so damned seriously.
GracenotesT§17:34, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete we already have
Wikipedia: List of Wikipedians by number of edits, which is better. This page is way out of date, as a few of the users listed there are no longer administrators. Also, there are numerous new administrators who would be on there that aren't. Administrators really don't need their own edit list; stick to the main list please.
Acalamari18:14, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Tag as Historical There is no reason for deletion (in my opinion of course), but tag as historical because it might have intrest for people who like to read historical pages.--
PrestonH19:00, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Tag as historical/inactive. I don't see any harm in keeping this page around, and there are people who are interested in these sorts of statistics. ---
RockMFR19:09, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Many
Wikipedia statistics are kept in userspace these days (wouldn't be all that bad if all were). Therefore, userfy if anyone cares to update it (since it might be of statistical interest to some), otherwise delete.
Миша1320:49, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
I don't quite get the "having a special one for admins isn't right" argument - it's just another statistic, derived from a
bigger sample and cut down to a
smaller population. Being a matematician I may be biased (as all I see are figures representing certain truths), but still, where's the logic that makes it "not right"?
Миша1321:02, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
I think what Majorly is getting at is that pages like this make adminship seem more like a "rank" when it's not supposed to be, and shouldn't be treated as such. I may be wrong of course about Majorly's deletion reasoning. :)
Acalamari22:11, 10 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete, don't tag - Per what Majorly meant to say (see Acalamari's clarification) - we really don't need adminship to be treated like a "rank" - and this list does that.
GiggyTalk00:33, 11 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete straight up, and perhaps replace with a redirect to list of Wikipedians by number of edits. I don't see why an administrator's edit count matters any more than any other editor's. If it were a list of administrators by number of blocks/deletes/protections (which I think I've seen somewhere) then I could understand, but not edits. - Zeibura(
Talk)18:49, 11 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Delete, do not tag as historical. Wikipedia is
not a bureaucracy and a proliferation of "historical" pages carries no benefit. If this was a proposed policy or something of that nature, I'd agree. However, it's an outdated list of outdated statistics. — Black Falcon(
Talk)22:45, 11 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Holy crap! I had over 64,000 edits last November? I haven't seen a count in so long, I had no idea I'd even passed 50k! Tag as Historical, might be useful to future Wikiologists.
bd2412T 23:33, 12 August 2007 (UTC)
Delete, do not tag The idea of the page is so bad that it doesn't need to be archived; if some Wikipedian historian of future needs it, they can ask an admin then to userfy it.
Xoloz05:06, 14 August 2007 (UTC)reply
Why? Why would you want a separate list for administrators? Administrators are not supposed to be a separate "division" within Wikipedia. We do already have the
list of Wikipedians by number of edits. It's like creating a "list of male Wikipedians from Australia with brown hair by edit count". Melsaran15:41, 14 August 2007 (UTC)reply
That's the point of his comment, methinks. This page was once of interest, and it is no longer of interest to most people. Therefore, it should be tagged as historical. This is common procedure.
GracenotesT§16:22, 14 August 2007 (UTC)reply
But I cannot understand why it was once if interest. The page is inactive, yes, but I also think that it has to go because it is an unnecessary separate list for the editcounts administrators, implying that it is some special "division" within Wikipedia and encouraging editcountitis. Melsaran17:30, 14 August 2007 (UTC)reply
The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the page's talk page or in a
deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.