User talk:Rodneykeeling

Sources on Wikipedia[edit]

Hello. As for your recent edits today: "source: I am an employee" is not a source on Wikipedia. Any claim based on a dubious source can be treated as unsourced, challenged, reverted and removed. Please read the Reliable sources guideline to see what verifiability on Wikipedia means and how to cite real sources. Thank you.—J. M. (talk) 22:01, 2 October 2017 (UTC)[reply]

To be fair to Rodney, the citation already on the page linked to updated stats figures, so there was nothing further for him to add. The only thing they didn't do was update the citation dates (date & accessdate) – now done more recently, with updated stat figures. ;-) Jimthing (talk) 16:04, 4 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discogs contributors stat page[edit]

Hi Rodney, just wondered why the Discogs contributors page now unceremoniously stops at page 100? Previously it went until the most recent contributor page (somewhere around page 7000+, AFAIR). Hence why I missed the small total user count at the bottom of the page, near the Prev/Next page buttons (https://www.discogs.com/stats/contributors ). Thanks in advance. Jimthing (talk) 16:13, 4 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello Jimthing, apologies in advance as I am new to editing on Wikipedia (I hope I am using this Talk feature correctly!). As for your question about the Contributors pages being truncated to just 100 pages: the reasoning was that the query for that page was identified as being one of the slowest queries we have logged for higher page counts on Discogs, as it aggregates on all actual contributions (assuming it's not cached). Cheers and best (Rodneykeeling (talk) 04:25, 5 July 2018 (UTC))[reply]

Thanks for responding. Re. "the reasoning was that the query for that page was identified as being one of the slowest queries we have logged for higher page counts on Discogs, as it aggregates on all actual contributions (assuming it's not cached)." – can you clarify this in non-tech speak, for us non-web devs?

Furthermore, why is this such a problem, especially as it's not a regularly accessed page on Discogs anyway? And also, is there any way of seeing beyond page 100 for those that may need to? Jimthing (talk) 12:17, 5 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]