RuneScape:Requests for deletion/Cultural references

Cultural references
Okay, let me start this off by saying that this is just an awful page. Absolutely awful. It has the same amount of literary prowess I'd expect from a sleep-deprived 6 year old. "Reference" is a buzzword on this page and the unavoidable repeated use of it makes for a dull and tedious read.

It's just a list. A boring, unorganized list. I'll get it out of the way now and blindly paraphrase from our trivia policy that only trivia directly relevant to the article should be on the article. Unfortunately, this slippery article makes literally every allusion relevant. Which is the real beef I have with it. It's kind of an unwritten rule in the trivia policy that there exists a point where there is "too much trivia". Whatever that threshold may be, this article sure has broken it. And guess what... It ain't even close to complete.

Beyond me being upset about the lack of acknowledgement of that page that there are PoP islands named after ponies, there exists an unfathomably long list of more appropriate trivia that could (and if we don't it soon, should) be included on the page. For those of you actually reading my blatherings: I challenge you to read this article right now. Seriously, stop reading this and read the article. Hopefully you realized that this can never be nothing more than a list. A long, boring, tedious read of a list. Now realize that each entry cannot be simply be a "∴ this ∵ that". While that doesn't make for a worthwhile read either, a bulleted list of mini paragraphs is actually worse. Now realize that this list can only get longer with each update. But wait... no one's actually updating this.

So there's the problem that this page is updated extremely infrequently. There's an interesting alternative that will exist if, for some god-forsaken reason, we decide to keep to list: obsolesce. If we keep it, one of two things will happen: we'll either have this eyesore of a trivia bore or we'll have a page that is constantly and terribly out of date. You decide. ''* cough * "did you know"  * cough *

So I guess the main idea behind this back in the day was that it would be a great place to see all the funny things that Jagex has done over the years. To be quite blunt, it fails to do that. Look, I get it, Jagex likes making Monty Python references. Don't get me wrong, he's a funny guy, but we sure do beat the dead horse with that on this page. We have enough problem with what trivia to keep on legitimate pages, but at least that trivia works well there. If you think there are actually avid readers of this page, you're wrong. With under 40k views, it hardly ranks amongst any of our more visited pages. No tears will be shed if we delete this mess.

Anyways, it was fun pontificating; hopefully you're all in agreement with me. Frankly, I feel any opposition could only exist somewhere between droll and ludicrous, but feel free to prove me wrong.

Delete - ffs 21:16, June 21, 2013 (UTC)