Methodology
How the data is derived and checked.
Everything comes from data
Pages here are generated from structured data files rather than written by hand. A number, a name or a date on this site can be traced back to a row in those files, and that row records which package and which commit it came from.
What gets a page
Only numbers that are assigned in at least one indexed source package get a page. Unassigned numbers get nothing, because there is nothing to report about them.
Accounts and groups are kept apart
A name gets an account page only where it holds a user ID. Names that appear only as a group are covered by the page for their group ID instead.
The reason is simple: the same row of source data should be described in one place, not two.
Dates
A date on this site is the date the source package was read. No page carries a publication date that was produced at build time.
Corrections
When a figure here turns out to be wrong, it is corrected in the data and the correction is recorded rather than quietly overwritten.