Thread:Don Joan/@comment-5116140-20120805220548

HI Don,

OK, I have used the wayback data to find at least 5 missing question marks for all the spino and brontornis dinos that I just deleted. I have also added any ? marks that I could prove must be there, but just were not entered. It is really neat to be able to see the fusion tables at any moment in the past using the wayback engine.

Now I have another proposal. There are still a few isolated spino and brontornis recipes. Likely they are obsolete, but they occur in cells with very few entries so will not be removed for a very long time if we only use the ????? test.

We need another test to remove isolated data points in cells that only get about 1 recipe per month. Especially since we can see almost all the other spino and brontornis recipes did expire. This test is not for your average user - only for trusted Fusion Table Guardians.

Expiration Test: You wouldn't drink a glass of milk that has been left on the kitchen table for a month. It clearly expired long ago and it is safest to throw it out. We need a similar expiration rule for isolated data points.

Each week, an isolated data point (say like a spino result) earns one question mark. After it has earned 5 without any additional support. It can be removed just like any other point with the five question marks.

Let me know what you think. It would only take another couple of weeks for all the isolated spino and brontornis results to expire with such a rule. The rule may be best only for the lower tier tables and the actual lenth of time to expire could be adjusted more conservatively or more liberally. 