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<h3>Why is the "number of write-ups" wrong?</h3>
<p>
When you see a user's "number of write-ups", this is a number which
PerlMonks maintains, incrementing it each time a user posts.
Maintaining this number statically is more efficient than re-counting
the user's writeups each time someone wants to see it.
However, over time this number can "drift" away from the true count, due
to a few rare conditions (let's not call them bugs).
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Several bugs which caused inaccurate write-up numbers have been fixed, but
there are still some bugs (such as race conditions) which can cause this
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This is why "<tt>~</tt>" appears before the write-up number on [id://6364]
(it stands for "approximately").
</p><p>
For another reason why a user's displayed "number of write-ups"
may not match their true count, see [id://162297].
Or, if you are a member of [pmdev] looking at a fellow [pmdev]il's writeups,
then you may also see non-public nodes (such as patches) listed which are not
accounted for in their "number".
</p>
<h3>If your own write-up number is wrong</h3>
<p>
If you suspect that the number of your write-ups displayed is inaccurate,
you can reset it by doing the following:<ol>
<li>Go to [User Settings]</li>
<li>Press the "submit" button.</li>
</ol>
You do not need to change any of the settings.<br>
If your write-up number was inaccurate,
the resulting page
will have a note at the top
explaining that your number was updated.
</p><p>
There is no way to correct another user's write-up number. You could try
[/msg]ing them and pointing them to the procedure above.
</p>
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