[Issue] Watchers is not pulling from the length of subscribers in https://api.github.com/users/${owner}/starred

[Iheuzio]

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

Starring

What changes are you suggesting?

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Stargazers should be the sole star counter, watchers should use the https://api.github.com/repos/${owner}/${repoName}/subscribers length or the subscribers_count. This would solve redundant code and allow for all the other forms of the api to be easier to use with our repositories.

In this example, the watchers should not be 80, it should be 42 (as of today).

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[nguyenalex836]

@Iheuzio Thanks for opening this issue! I'll get this triaged for review ✨

[docs-bot]

Thank you for opening this issue! Changes to the REST API schema can be requested in github/rest-api-description. I will transfer your issue over to that open source repo.