Thread:Don Joan/@comment-5116140-20120805174206

Hi Don,

You can see I have been quite busy this weekend with fusion table maintenance instead of guarding my Jersey Girl tomatoes from the hoard of squirrels that live in the canopy of our sweet gum tress, and only come down to plunder my little garden. But something good has come out of it, a method to accelerate the removal of obsolete results using the wikia wayback engine.

By going to your wall and clicking on your contributions, you can quickly navigate back to a complete record of the fusion tables since creation. Then click on the tool. This will take you "way back to the past" and below the source code changes, you can see the EXACT history of the table as it existed at that time. This historical record is what I mean by the 'Wayback Engine".

The method I am proposing is identical to the five question mark method. The problem we are having is that many users just don't add the ? marks, which though it does no harm, delays the ejection of obsolete results. Now I am looking at a table entry on July 15th with 2 brontornis entrees and nothing else. Today it has 6 addtional entrees - none of which were brontornis(s). That means that if we had had full compliance with the ? mark guidelines, that brontornis should have a full 6 question marks and not the puny 3 we see today.

PROPOSAL: I propose to use the Wayback Engine and the historical record to see if a number of the older brontornis and spino entrees really should have 5 or more ? marks. If they did, they would then be deleted in full compliance with the ????? deletion criterion. I believe I can achieve this with 100% accuracy in a few hours work. Let me know what you think. As always, I never proceed on a proposal until a confirmation is given.

ID: TinyRobinEgg 