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→Overlapping damage: Spreadsheet formulas.
:Drat! I even remember trying to calculate properly Ted Stevens' "kinky sex adventures" versus the clarification that these adventures took place "with donkeys". I intended to be fair, but it looks like in my copying and pasting between Wikipedia and Google spreadsheet, I didn't "cut off" the plain old "kinky sex adventures" at 23:50, 11 November, as I should have. Your 10% vs. 90% explanation is clear to me, but I hope that you'll understand that because these situations were relatively rare, calculating the way I did, it relieved me of an even more undue burden of trying to re-calculate "error view chances" based on layered vs. unlayered errors. If you have a $10,000 federal grant to support a re-calculation, I'll be happy to "volunteer" again! -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 10:57, 29 May 2009 (PDT)
:Drat! I even remember trying to calculate properly Ted Stevens' "kinky sex adventures" versus the clarification that these adventures took place "with donkeys". I intended to be fair, but it looks like in my copying and pasting between Wikipedia and Google spreadsheet, I didn't "cut off" the plain old "kinky sex adventures" at 23:50, 11 November, as I should have. Your 10% vs. 90% explanation is clear to me, but I hope that you'll understand that because these situations were relatively rare, calculating the way I did, it relieved me of an even more undue burden of trying to re-calculate "error view chances" based on layered vs. unlayered errors. If you have a $10,000 federal grant to support a re-calculation, I'll be happy to "volunteer" again! -- [[User:MyWikiBiz|MyWikiBiz]] 10:57, 29 May 2009 (PDT)
:: I don't think it would take a research grant to fix this, just some spreadsheet formulas. Basically, for a given row, if the ending date/time of the vandalism is less than the value of that same field in the prior row, then don't count '''any''' views as being damaged. (To be even more accurate, you could check the current row against more rows: say, the row that is two lines above, and the row that is three lines above.)
::Similarly, you could flag, for manual inspection, using a spreadsheet formula, cases where the starting date/time of a row was less than the ending date/time of the row(s) above it; you could even tell the spreadsheet to ignore rows where the views in question are less than 10 (or so), as being immaterial. -- [[User:John Broughton|John Broughton]] 09:14, 8 July 2009 (PDT)
=== Meaningless "damaged article-minutes" calculation ===
=== Meaningless "damaged article-minutes" calculation ===