Wikibooks:Requests for deletion/Wikibooks:List of Wikibookians by number of edits

List of Wikibookians by number of edits
I removed a speedy tag from this. Deletionist that I may be (I'm getting better) this page is not in my opinion able to be deleted speedily. The narrative on the tag was ''Unnecessary to maintain here, can be accessed directly some other way. This is asking to get stale and a far better interface is already available at the actual source of this data.'' I'm sure User:Withinfocus with be along to give their views. For now I have no vote -- Herby talk thyme 15:56, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * There has never been the urge here at wikibooks, like there is at wikipedia or other wikis, for users to categorize themselves. Your average wikibooks user has fewer "user boxes" on their pages: we make fewer boxes and we use fewer boxes. To a degree, i think people are prefectly contented with this situation. I mention this to say that this page, like so many user categories, is interesting but is ultimately not really needed around here. Edit counts change every day. I know, that in a good swing, I can amass more then 100 edits a day. This list therefore is a loose approximation, at best, of a person's edit counts. At worst this list is an inaccurate representation of the worth of our many editors. I do agree that there are places where this information is better represented, such as the various edit counters or the statistics pages or whatever. This list just can't be maintained and should probably be deleted (or locked for historical purposes, with a note to the fact). --Whiteknight (Page) (Talk) 16:42, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete I don't find this to be useful, time spent maintaining this would be better spent explaining how to access the source of the information in the help space. -- xixtas talk 17:19, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete - It's all been said above. This is an unnecessary maintenance task. I like Xixtas' recommendation to mention the live tool to get this data somewhere in the Help namespace, but we don't need a Main namespace page that I can almost guarantee will get stale often. -within focus 19:38, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete - I agree that this shouldn't be a speedy. However, this list will constantly be stale and keeping it fresh(ish) will be a drain on manpower that could be better used in other ways. Instead, we should find a way to automatically create a list of the top 20/50/100/... contributors by edit count (which may or may not be possible - I have no experience with the software's inner workings). At the very least, make some instructions to get the data straight from the source.  – Mike.lifeguard  | talk 20:55, 12 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete - pointless information. Knowing that a user contributes a fair amount might be useful (and can be determined in several different ways), but a list like this does little good and suffers from all the problems listed at the top of the page. Webaware talk 01:04, 13 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Delete, I don't really see too much historical value in this, since all the older numbers are outdated and not really useful for anything. Mattb112885 (talk to me) 00:36, 14 July 2007 (UTC)