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Talk:Essay:Best New Conservative Words (view source)
Revision as of 16:07, June 29, 2011
, 16:07, June 29, 2011→Decades: second try
:I'm not sure how that will help - surely the decade is already contained in the 'year' column? If you'd like a more accurate count, I suggest doing what I do - use a perl script to parse the wikitext and print out whatever information you want. To me the decade column looks annoyingly redundant, but perhaps I've missed something... [[User:Jcw|Jcw]] 10:27, 28 June 2011 (EDT)
:I'm not sure how that will help - surely the decade is already contained in the 'year' column? If you'd like a more accurate count, I suggest doing what I do - use a perl script to parse the wikitext and print out whatever information you want. To me the decade column looks annoyingly redundant, but perhaps I've missed something... [[User:Jcw|Jcw]] 10:27, 28 June 2011 (EDT)
::I wanted to facilitate the count: as some of the dates are not purely numeric (1950s, before 1958, 1625-1635), it's hard to sort the table by the column ''date''. If there is a purely numeric column, the table can be easily copied into a spreadsheet and recounted even by those who don't know anything about regular expressions.
::If you have a script, please use it to keep an eye on the count: I'm surprised that you didn't spot the miscount earlier on.
::I'll add the column for the decades again, this time at the last place. This should be more pleasing...
::[[User:AugustO|AugustO]] 12:07, 29 June 2011 (EDT)