User talk:SatyrBot/Opera1

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Thanks, this is interesting. I am assuming that you used all the cats on Peter's page including the ones he called "Categories of operatic interest not to be tagged by robot". (Many of these cats as I've explained are kosher, but the American singer cats in particular have a lot of popular artists that will inflate the total.)

May I ask how the figure of 3502 opera pages was derived? This seems to be the key figure (Total articles/stubs are presumably total numbers of cats on pages, yes?) -- Kleinzach 08:35, 31 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Oops. Yes, the figures do include the "bot should ignore" cats. My bad :)

The 3502 figure comes from counting the pages in each category and adding all that together. As such, it's no a good figure - articles in two categories were counted twice. And of course, that figure includes the "bot should ignore" articles :)

The stubs figure is likewise high - stubs in two categories were counted twice.

My goal was to get some round ideas, so I didn't program it to be overly selective :)

Hope that helps! -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 01:10, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The reason I'm interested is that I have been estimating the number of pages at around 3,000 and I'd like to know how accurate that is. I'm puzzled because 3502 seems too low for total cats, whereas the other figures (Total articles: 8912, Total stubs: 3970, Opera Cats: 576) all look about right. -- Kleinzach 03:37, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Ah - I see. I may have mis-stated.

I did a quick calculation for the "operas" - basically I just looked for that word in the cat title. So Category:1680s operas would count, Category:Arias and Category:Chicago opera companies weren't. Just a quick and dirty number :) -- SatyrTN (talk | contribs) 13:30, 1 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]