Hmm, yeah I've been looking at ff.ne looking at this.
But the character coding is a recent event in some sections (the first fics were in the end of 2001, but the vast majority (basically I think all of them except 3)of all character categorized stories are from 2003 onwards, so this may slqant any results you get particularly on slightly later characters like Gaara and Itachi, but seeing as the rate of fanfics seems to increase something akin to exponentially, these are probably a small volume in relation to the total.
And some people don't bother with selecting it when they put it in, so infact you've also missed out those by using character codes.
But overall I think your stats are right(give or take Naruto/ Sasuke switching). But I think the numbers have increased by a few page already.
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on 2007-Dec-18, Tuesday 17:10 (UTC)But the character coding is a recent event in some sections (the first fics were in the end of 2001, but the vast majority (basically I think all of them except 3)of all character categorized stories are from 2003 onwards, so this may slqant any results you get particularly on slightly later characters like Gaara and Itachi, but seeing as the rate of fanfics seems to increase something akin to exponentially, these are probably a small volume in relation to the total.
And some people don't bother with selecting it when they put it in, so infact you've also missed out those by using character codes.
But overall I think your stats are right(give or take Naruto/ Sasuke switching).
But I think the numbers have increased by a few page already.