Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/Wikipedia:Most frequently edited pages

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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. (NAC) Armbrust The Homunculus 19:20, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Most frequently edited pages


The most edited pages for a (random?) 30 day period in 2008 doesn't seem super useful. Gaijin42 (talk) 21:50, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep It's already marked historical, no need to delete, and seeing it might encourage someone to update it. Oiyarbepsy (talk) 03:35, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep per Oiyarbepsy. Also, it's been around for a while; [//en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Most_frequently_edited_pages&oldid=13052802 This version from October 2004] is fascinating. Graham 87 08:20, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep. We should not discard the history of the project and it's already marked as a page being retained for that purpose. In general such pages should have the history template added if not already present rather than a deletion nomination. Rather than deletion a more useful action would be to modify the page to contain links to more annual snapshots containing the same information for convenience and general interest, rather than relying on the page history. The original page was created by me after requests back in 2004 when I was a developer (sysadmin and developer combined by current roles) using direct database queries to get the information. That's also of historic interest as an example of how our practices have changed over the years as more features have been added to the software, eliminating hand work that used to be needed. If the number of historic pages ever becomes substantial enough to make it worth the trouble, we could add a namespace for historic information. That's probably many years away at present and it may never happen. For now the history tagging is the way to go. If an administrator reviewing this does decide that delete is appropriate please let me know in advance using the email contact link so I can take an offline archive first. Jamesday (talk) 13:40, 26 August 2014 (UTC)
 * It turns out that there is also a page at Most frequently edited pages/Past versions (linked from the main page), which is a good thing. Graham 87 06:24, 27 August 2014 (UTC)
 * Keep No point in deleting something because it is old, it does not save hard drive space. Chillum 15:25, 26 August 2014 (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.