Board Thread:Wiki Running/@comment-3225604-20150619060400/@comment-17897872-20150701052559

I agree with Imamadmad. Rose and I have both been guilty of padding our edit counts at some points of time. Even one of my closer friends User:Nusdan from the Geometry Dash wiki was caught doing this, but we are all mature users currently capable of becoming an admin. I still support Nusdan in becoming an admin there. AN EDIT COUNT DOESN’T MATTER. I don't even know why the wikia system added an edit count with all of the badges. I’ve been looking up the importance of an edit count. The only reason they include it is because it’s to help against sockpuppeting. Users with one or two edits to purely vote on obscure polls show as sockpuppets.

The quality of edits does not matter to the quantity. Some reasons why edits can’t be counted could be related to the following:


 * Many editors have tasks that require less time per edit. For example, adding “s” to Walkthrough was over 1000 edits already.  Or counting the amount of points to get one star is another thousand edits.
 * Message walls, blog posts, comments count as edits. These shouldn’t count as actual edits.
 * Many people edit where others don’t, where edits generally don’t count as much.  Templates and general wiki style/backgrounds and any Candy Crush Saga Wikia pages are important but don’t count as many edits.
 * Some users have bot accounts (aka Wildonesbot and Imamadbot) where others mush every edit into one account.
 * Userpage edits shouldn’t count.
 * Spam edits. 20 edits to a page with no net change count as a lot of edits.
 * Edits performed to a deleted page. Counting edits don’t get subtracted from pages getting deleted towards the end.

Of course, there are probably more examples that escape me at the moment. This is why I promote people based on helpfulness, time spent on wikia, and attitude. An admin may be guilty of performing spam edits, but still be an important asset to the wiki. S/he still deserves to be admin.

-3primetime3- (talk) 05:25, July 1, 2015 (UTC)