So, this topic came up a little while ago (September 2) in the topic Rare Sotawatch remarks on summits where the exact same thing was seen for another summit.
…and always has been? Well, that’s actually incorrect, but you can be forgiven for not knowing that. In fact, in the hidden database table for the summit points, there are two records for that particular summit:
- the first record gives the summit 6 points and was valid up until 2007-02-28, and
- the second gives the now-current value of 8 points.
As I pointed out in the topic linked-to above, there is evidently an error in the code which generates the alerts page popup, and which has the effect of pulling just the top one from any stack existing in the summit-points table for a particular summit (in the case of summit W2/GC-010, the stack is two records high, and the earliest one is on top).
My guess is that this is low-priority stuff which is going to be left as-is, since the MT IT dept. is (when they can find the time for it) very busy with the new versions of various parts of the SOTA suite of sites, and the new version of the alerts page (very soon to be made live) will undoubtedly have the correct code for the popup.
In any case, the database always shows the definitive data.