User talk:138.251.244.161

Question

First of all, welcome to Wikipedia. What exactly were you attempting by this? Fvasconcellos (t·c) 02:41, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, listing 20 years of rankings is ridiculous; especially rankings by discontinued lists.

Your edit broke the table's formatting, and left several fields of data behind; that's why I reverted it. How far back would you go? Two years only? Fvasconcellos (t·c) 02:48, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes I apologise, I think reverting to 2 and then opening it for discussion seems apt and fair. The originator of the original change is on an LSE ip highlighting the bias behind the change.

That's not an LSE IP. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.104.51.74 (talk) 21:53, 15 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Rankings

By removing all but the very most recent results, you draw attention to their absence. Almost all other UK universities have league table listings going back to 1993, why is St Andrews a special case to have the omitted? 91.105.83.31 (talk) 10:44, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

To quote the user: "I severely disagree with the idea of listing university rankings for ~20 years across discontinued rankings. Users want concurrent, fast info. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 138.251.244.161 (talk) 02:56, 15 January 2009 (UTC)" . —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.104.51.74 (talk) 19:40, 17 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I do not believe that any of the UK schools should have 15 years worth of rankings, rankings for +10 years ago are worthless and make the tables clunky. I think 5 years of rankings, for all schools, is an appropriate compromise between too much irrelevant information and too little data. - 08:56, 19 January 2009 (GMT)

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