Board Thread:Consensus track/@comment-7153552-20130927224851/@comment-3523404-20131204065531

We've gotten quite off track with this discussion as well. While edit count in the main space serves as an effective tool for highlighting an editor's qualification for MOTM, it is a crude tool at best. If the 1:1 ratio is correct, then this greatly lessens the significance of edit count alone, since all edits, regardless of how small or large, are considered identical to the server. So, if an editor wikifies and places maintenance tags throughout the Emperor article, the server counts this as being the same as fixing the misspelling of "Defiantly" to "Definitely". Additionally, according to this Wikipedia article, Special:DeletedContributions are ignored by the server. An editor could create 20 articles and have them all deleted, or add forty paragraphs of text across 20 articles, have them all reverted, and their edit count remains the same. So, we must be ever-vigilant when electing MOTM persons.