User talk:Nettrom/datasets/March 2014 popular stubs

Repeated from village Pump: :I'll be leaving #3 on the list, Ted Thorpe (footballer born 1910), which supposedly had 180K views in 3 days in February, but has now had 43 views over the last 30 days. #1 .45 (film) had 384K views in Feb, over a week, but only 2k in the last 30 days, and #2 Kong (dog toy) 300K and 1K. #4, Stratton Oakmont is the subject behind The Wolf of Wall Street with views now falling off. At the top of the list, all you are doing is capturing things that are topical (or something). None of the top 10 except Stratton Oakmont would even be on the list if you repeated the excercise now - # 11 Nærøyfjord is also a flash in the pan, but would make it in low down. The Sochi Winter Olympics will have hugely distorted the list - right at the bottom of the list, Eric Lesser got an "average" 128 views per day (actually very concentrated round his win); now he's getting that a month. If you repeated the excercise for say May, and combined or averaged the views, more useful data would result. None of #1,2, & 4 are actually stubs, but we know that a huge proportion of "stubs" have out of date ratings. Some articles, like Chelsea bun, are short and might be called stubs (would be by most graders), but actually give you as much as you are likely to need, and should be a "C" in my book. Pappardelle, consistently over 200 views per day, probably does deserve a bit more more than 2 lines, likewise Salad Niçoise. Food dishes are common on the list - I suspect many if not most hits want recipes. Herbaceous plant does the job, and is not a stub, but could be longer. Most graders look purely at the length & number of references, disregarding totally the scale of the topic, which is not what they are supposed to do. Not that I want to discourage you, of course. Lists sorted by project would be the most helpful. Johnbod (talk) 21:38, 29 April 2014 (UTC)