UDWiki talk:Operation Prune

Current Status

Would it be possible to cross reference the current statuses with either suburb news, danger reports or EMRs, either through clever templating or bot-related shenanigans?--Shortround 09:37, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

I think the idea is just to remove the "current status" section entirely and rely on the Building Information Centre. Keep in mind most of those pages had the status section added before the BIC was a thing that existed. It's redundant now, though if there is something that is for whatever reason notable it could probably just get added to a history section.--Labine50 ^{MEMS | MHG} 05:06, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Step 2: ..., Step 3: Profit?

Not to kid too much, but what are the next steps? How about outlining a complete plan so that you can get some discussion going, rather than just suggesting one change? —Aichon— 17:32, 3 February 2012 (UTC)

Thanks for your interest Aichon. Yeah I totally agree a complete plan would be great but my hope was that it could come about via discussion and consensus rather than by diktat. Since you asked though, what I had originally envisaged was a culling of all the extraneous and unneeded rubbish that has accumulated over the years and then from there seeing what can be built upon and expanded.

To give you an idea, what I was hoping to do with the location pages was to remove all the out of date status and metagame information which is better located elsewhere, and then once that was done create a "bank" of flavour text which can be used as building blocks to create histories of each location in the game. From there, who knows what could be cleaned up next. Gordon 20:04, 4 February 2012 (UTC)

Well, for my first comment since coming back to UD after a long hiatus - I'm totally supportive of this proposed project. Current Status seems completely redundant (and frequently detrimental) when there exist simpler and more accurate ways to check the status of locations. I don't have any idea of other things that could be pruned from the Wiki, but the general concept seems like a good one and I think it should be explored further. I'd say people ought to propose any other features of the Wiki that are systemically ignored and practically useless. – aClashInRedSnow^|talk 02:32, 5 February 2012 (UTC)