RuneScape:Requests for deletion/Category:RuneScape Merchandise (1)

This is a proposal to delete all things about the Jagex Store including individual item pages, trimming that page down to simply a brief overview of the store, what it sells (like saying "it sells bags, hats, etc.") and a link to the official Jagex store. Sorry Chicken.

Rationale:
 * It's not even close to being under the mandate of this Wiki. Wait, aren't we for all things RuneScape?  No!  We have asserted time and again that we are for all things related to the RuneScape GAME, not the universe.  Which is why, among other things, we don't allow fan fiction on the Wiki, which is arguably orders of magnitude more related to the game than merchandise.
 * We're just presenting a non-NPOV advertisement for Jagex.
 * Basically everything is copy-vio'd from the Jagex store.
 * It is unfair to make the community maintain this. It's not good enough to say if you don't care about it, don't edit it.  Things that are on the Wiki carry our "brand" and we all have an individual stake in standing behind every article and keeping the information correct.  With this, every time a price changes we would have to update articles!  That's not what I, and most of the other 17 thousand editors signed up for.
 * It serves no greater purpose than a link to the store would!

The Wiki should fulfill a role that a simple link to the Jagex site wouldn't. This needs to go (again, while keeping a small article explaining and commenting on the store, without trying to be a store itself!).

18:44, April 30, 2010 (UTC)