UDWiki:Operation Prune

Rationale

Any gardener, or in my case Wikipedia, will tell you that sometimes in order to help a plant grow you need to cut big chunks off. In this analogy the wiki is a plant. It's overgrown with weeds and needs pruned. In the case of the UDWiki we have been going for nearly seven years, and in that time a metric fuckton of junk has accumulated. Not only is it unneeded, it's offputting to newbies looking for information and may actually be hampering the wiki's growth.

Step 1 - Kill "Current Status"

Pick a random location page and the chances it will have a current status or history section which is either several years out of date or empty. Let's face it, there are 10000 locations in Malton, we have a fairly small group of wiki editors, these are never going to be consistently kept up to date and at the moment they simply serve to make the wiki look neglected. Time for them to go. Gordon 16:44, 1 February 2012 (UTC)

Why not, perhaps, start using them again? It wont be much, but it will be something.--Zaphord 19:11, 8 February 2012 (UTC)

"Current Status" is just so manpower-intensive. It takes a significant (not huge by any means, but significant) amount of time and effort to write a Current Status report for just one little block on the map. It's also redundant. Practically a textbook case of redundancy, and not the good kind. If anything, various groups could maintain Current Status pages for their associated suburbs, at their discretion - as it stands, Current Status is just a sloppy and frequently-unreliable blemish on most location pages, and it's unlikely that anyone will commit to updating them frequently when there are more efficient means of checking the status of a location. (Also, shouldn't this be on the Talk page?) --Nic LesFlics^|?| 21:13, 8 February 2012 (UTC)