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September 21

RfA edit counts.png, I don't know where to ask

I find this chart fascinating. Generally curious, somewhere summer 2008, a user with less than 100 edits was appointed for adminship. Who is he? NotAGenious (talk) 16:19, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

The link you provided appears to be broken; I just get an error. Matt Deres (talk) 16:32, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

My bad. Here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Successful_RfA_edit_counts.png NotAGenious (talk) 16:36, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Unable to name the user, but as the Comment box content indirectly suggests, it might be that the user in question was known to have had many edits under a previous account, and had switched to a new account for some legitimate reason. {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 51.198.107.25 (talk) 18:40, 21 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Per the commons page, the image is currently used in 3 places on en. One of these is a discussion. Checking it Wikipedia talk:Requests for adminship/Archive 261#RfA edit count statistics out, it was fairly easy to find the editor who made the image briefly discussed this precise issue. It wasn't an error or clean start or anything, but an editor mostly active on the German Wikipedia who had successfully obtained adminship there and wanted adminship for a specific purpose here with a promise to only use their tools for that purpose subject to blocking. I won't name the editor here since I feel it's unnecessary. Note that as plenty of discussions attest, our standards are much more strict now partly controversial so, and IMO there's no chance such an RfA will succeed. Even then, the request was somewhat controversial as shown by the comments. Nil Einne (talk) 10:48, 22 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]