Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits

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 * The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the miscellaneous 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.

The result of the discussion was keep. The page header already gives the dates covered and states that it may not be updated. JohnCD (talk) 09:40, 3 August 2012 (UTC)

List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits


Severely out of date. Depends upon List of Wikipedians by number of recent edits/Data being created off-wiki by somebody with the requisite technical ability (as well as a suitable database dump), and then manually uploaded (see List of Wikipedians by number of edits/How to generate the lists). Since this is non-automated, it's only updated as and when somebody with the ability actually wants to do it. History of the data subpage shows that recent "updates" have all been manual edits.

If this report is to have any purpose other than to mislead, it needs to be updated automatically at fixed intervals - either monthly, or three-monthly. -- Red rose64 (talk) 15:01, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Solve - Find a way to make a Bot that updates it quarterly (three-monthly). It can be a useful tool for Editor Retention, and the way to solve an issue with a page that isn't working right is to make it work right, not delete it. Achowat (talk) 15:35, 26 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. There are many options, either by solving the technical issues through automation, like Achowat suggested, or by marking the page as inactive with historical. Deletion is not necessary.--SGCM (talk)  00:57, 27 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. Deletion isn't the answer, rather try and find a way to update it. If it being out of date is a problem, simply add a notice at the top of the page saying so. LegoKontribsTalkM 00:08, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Solve Agree with the above comments. Since the previous incarnations are historical data anyway there seems no particular reason to delete them merely because the updates are not happening regularly. --Mirokado (talk) 20:40, 29 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep - Someone eventually may get the page running again. In the mean time, it has information that is useful through the pages' last update. -- Uzma Gamal (talk) 05:29, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Delete - sorry to be contrarian, but I believe this type of scoreboard is harmful to the project. --Surturz (talk) 11:34, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Would you mind fleshing out your argument a bit more? What problems arise with this scoreboard? Achowat (talk) 12:55, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Encouraging editors to compete to increase their edit counts is not helpful to the project. --Surturz (talk) 00:34, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * keep. Part of wikipedia history an culture. Even abandoned projects teach you something. Staszek Lem (talk) 01:24, 31 July 2012 (UTC)
 * Keep. Part of Wikipedia culture. Even if not currently maintained, we should not erase our historical pages for no reason. Can be updated if people find it worthwhile. jni (talk) 05:51, 31 July 2012 (UTC)


 * 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.