I'm number 11

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The answer, obviously, is that they're all controversial. And (as measured by talk page size) they're the top-5 most controversial articles on wikipedia: see [[Wikipedia:Database reports/Talk pages by size]] (I'm discounting #1, "Main page", for the obvious reason). The only surprising entry in the…
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There's an interesting case of this recently. The prime examplar appears to be this edit which removes For many years Spencer, along with [[John R. Christy]], has maintained an atmospheric temperature record derived from satellite microwave sounding unit measurements, commonly called the [[UAH…
Actually it turns out that this is part 3! But I'm not going to revise the title now. Part 1 and Part 2 refer, as does some digging. [Update: this made the [[Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2009-12-28/In the news]] ] So, Lawrence "beany" Solomon does me the honour of a full-out assault. I'm a bit…

What does that MEAN exactly?

[Ah, sometimes I forget that not everyone has their head stuck up their bum :-). It is a list of most-watched pages (everyone on wikipedia has a "watchlist" of pages. 400-odd people (so to speak) have my user/talk page on their watchlist. make an account! Watch my page! Push me higher... -W]

But is being as high as number 11 good or bad?

I assume it is bad being a result of all those silly people believing those silly reports of you rewriting all the climate pages.

But maybe it is good because you just like being notorious?

[The only thing worse than being noticed... -W]

I'm just getting over the shock of being at 15, despite my not having done anything of much interest for at least three years.

By Tony Sidaway (not verified) on 21 Apr 2010 #permalink