Wowpedia talk:Proposal to deprecate addon collection

I've been browsing through Category:AddOns of late, to me it seems that the only sane thing to do is basically get rid of it.

It served a great purpose long ago when WoW was new and we didn't have lots of automated AddOn sites. This is no longer true. To me, it just brings badwill to WoWWiki - "Hey! Look! We have AddOn listings!" ... except they pages haven't been updated in over a year, and we only have a couple dozen of them.

• Category:AddOns has 160 articles. Some of them are not AddOns at all. Let's call it 150.

• curse-gaming.com has 3249 addons.

• wowinterface.com has 1111 addons.

• worldofwar.net has (arf, can't find it. lots anyway)

In addition to this (and please check this out if you don't believe me), the vast majority of addon pages have not been updated since mid-2005!. A lot of them even have "deprected, please see" or stub tags on them.

Proposal

• Remove any and all addon pages that have not had subtantive content added or modified during 2006.

• Remove any and all addon pages that have less than 10 sentences of actual information, or do not have at least one screen shot (where it would make sense to have a screenshot, of course. Some addons don't have UIs.).

• Remove any and all addons that are found to be outdated, obsoleted, abandoned, or otherwise integrated into something else.

• Remove any and all addon pages that can be demonstrated are several versions behind what is documented on other sites (where available).

• Re-classify Category:AddOns as a place that AddOn developers can use as the main page for their AddOn, if they like, but that there's no point for WoWWiki, nor for its visitors, and neither for the Author himself that the WoWWiki page just be an outdated and lesser copy of what's available on addon sites. OR a page actively maintained by WoWWiki contributors for a mod that they find particularily useful and like to tell others about (objectively and usefully).

"Remove" above would be tagging the pages Template:Tlink after this vote passes.

I'm not going to try and make this policy. Think of it as a big effin' delete vote. I myself don't particularily want anyone hunting down poor addon authors that post info about their addon here without intending to use it as their main (and hence updated!) page. I just want to clear out the crud that, frankly, does nothing but annoy new visitors that don't know better than to just ignore any addon pages listed on WoWWiki since all the info is outdated, like most of us that know the place actually do!

(And, yes, the idealist in me would love to have all of AddOndom on WoWWiki with lots of screenshots and extra info from our contributors. But, let's face it, it isn't happening. It stopped happening over a year ago. The big AddOn sites are where people go to look for info on AddOns.)

--Mikk 15:23, 21 June 2006 (EDT)

== Votes ==

Yes

1. Yes Mikk 15:24, 21 June 2006 (EDT) - ()
2. Yes Flickering 15:32, 21 June 2006 (EDT) - ()
3. Yes Kirkburn 15:51, 21 June 2006 (EDT) - ()
4. Yes Tarog 15:54, 21 June 2006 (EDT) - ()

No

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