Wowpedia:Writing/ExternalLinks/Thottbot removal vote

Changes and Options
This vote will deal with whether we keep Thottbot in the auto-added Elinks templates (Elinks-item, Elinks-quest, Elinks-NPC...). It will be a simple Keep/Remove vote. '''Manually added elink do not count and are always welcome if they fit the policy. The vote is exclusively for the Elinks templates.'''

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Votes

 * Keep :

-(They have the most comprehensive item search in my opinion.)


 * Remove :

Comments
Removed remove vote, was only just made aware they use in game itemid's. While thottbot loads quick and has a large amount of information, it also has the most trolls / useless comments. I usually only check thott bot as a last resort. -- 05:47, 9 April 2007 (EDT)

Tribunal.....trojans? keyloggers? Wow...just wow... and your only contribution are votes on these elinks proposals, highly suspect with such false slander. -- 17:13, 9 April 2007 (EDT)


 * Well being owned by IGE is probably the first reason I would use to remove them but I like the information on that site, both for the old beta days and current. Calling them out of date is like the kettle and pot, WOWWIKI has too many faults for old data to be calling any other site out of date.  Sharlin 09:05, 10 April 2007 (EDT)

Abstaining. I'm not at all fond of the site (owned by gold sellers, ads tend to compromise poorly-secured browsers, low signal-to-noise ratio in gathered data, poor searching)... but having been the first WoW DB site to exist (or close to it, at least), many folks still consider it the canonical reference. 15:30, 10 April 2007 (EDT)

Thottbot had a more efficient format for me with NoScript and Privoxy, but Thott sold out long ago and nobody maintains the site. I asked him personally why everything DEs into Clam Meat, his response was, "lol, isn't that great?". I've been using Wowhead for everything except the rare search for item models. Boblo-WW 08:45, 16 April 2007 (EDT)
 * The DE information seems to have been hidden. Regardless, a dirty database is still dirty, even if you sweep the dirtiest part under a rug.   16:03, 17 April 2007 (EDT)

Promised I wouldn't comment on this, since I'm adding this after the vote ended (sadly). But I find it ironic that some of the "remove" votes want Thott removed for gold ads... when I'm seeing a gold ad in the left column here. --Eirik Ratcatcher 13:30, 26 April 2007 (EDT)