Wikipedia:Edit count
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- See main project at Wikipedia:WikiProject edit counters for more info and a list of available edit counters.
Edit counts are a quick way of measuring a Wikipedian's experience in the Wikipedia community.
As a small protection against sock puppetry, certain voting processes may discount votes made by extremely new users (those with very few edits made very recently), such as at Articles for deletion. However, Wikipedia tries not to base decisions on votes, but on consensus-making discussion and reasoning, so even very new editors who give good reasons for their stance can sway others to their side.
Some users base their Request for adminship votes on several factors, including the edit count of candidate. Reasons for this may include protection against sock puppetry, and the fact that active admins are needed to help with admin backlogs.
As edits can vary greatly in size and quality, it is important not to put too much weight into someone's edit count, and to avoid worrying too much about one's own edit count. Edit counts do not necessarily reflect the value of a user's contributions to the Wikipedia project.
