Thread:Talk:Article feedback/Irrelevant/reply (52)

I'm not the one with the math problem. Repeatedly citing the traffic statistics only PROVES my point. Yeah, I know, you want people to only view the top 30 articles (HALF of which are "special" pages: the main page, the random article page, the search page, the 404 error page, etc, etc, etc), but what looking at that convenient little number you're clinging to does NOT show is that at LEAST half of ALL the top 1,000 pages are celebrity/pop culture pages: actors, singers, politicians, billionaires, films, tv shows, albums, video games, etc, etc (all pages it's been PROVEN are the MOST likely to be voted on for how much people like, or dislike, the SUBJECT). That's just a FACT. Expecting me to list all the HUNDREDS of celeb/pop culture pages from the top 1000 traffic statistics here before you open your eyes and admit the truth is simply absurd. The reason I keep using the dashboard as a simple example is because it's easy for ANYONE who comes here to glance at and get the basic the idea. If you remember, I originally came and reported on the problems on the pages I'm watching. After you tried to discredit me by saying "those are just YOUR 'favorite' articles", I used the dashboard as ANOTHER example. Once again, you tried to pretend like those votes were just an "anomally". So then you threw out the article traffic page (which CLEARLY shows at least HALF of the pages are celeb articles).. It's like Subfader has said, this whole discussion is a vicious circle. Any which way you slice it, the statistics come up the same, but you just keep desperately trying to dance around the numbers. Sadly for you, NOBODY is falling for it.

Where we may be having some miscommunication is with exactly WHAT numbers we're talking about. To clarify - I'm not saying celeb/pop culture articles make up half of all articles on Wikipedia. I admit, in my boredom with repeatedly correcting people's misrepresentations of what I've said here I may have misspoken (mistyped) that here somewhere, so let me clarify. I'm saying half of all daily TRAFFIC is readers viewing celeb articles. In case you're still confused - Let's say only 10% of the encyclopedia is celeb/pop culture articles (I don't know the exact number - it may be 20%, it may be 30% - but being generous, let's just say 10%). What ALL the statistics tools show is that every time ONE person views a non-celebrity article, TEN people ARE viewing a celebrity article. I'm talking about the number of daily READERS, not the overall number of ARTICLES.