User blog comment:Banarama/GOODBYE 2017, HELLO 2018!/@comment-26806340-20180104200226/@comment-26806340-20180107052253

Yeah, edit count doesn't tell one much realistically about your accomplishments, skill, helpfulness, etc.

The contributions themselves are what matter, not some overgeneralized counter of them all. You can't count creating a useful and powerful template and making an off-topic comment that gets removed but not deleted as equal contributions, yet that's exactly what going by your edit count does. Edit count is a general measure of how prolific you are, but don't read too much into it. El armadillo ≠ Utkar22, even though they seem to have equal edit numbers.