Forum:Dissolving the file classification system

Well as I was working on BF:CLASS to make it a bit more reader-friendly/comprehensive, I remembered that we also have BF:FILECLASS. We use the Article classification system quite a bit, but the fileclass system has gone totally unused since it was first created (the nominations page hasn't been edited at all since it was first created, the only time the actual BF:FILECLASS page was ever edited was by a bot in December of the same year it was created, 2011).

We were supposed to be able to nominate and vote on files that we thought were gold-class files. We never actually used it (instead, I think we linked BF:FILECLASS's gold classification to our featured media system, but I don't really remember), and so the page is still there, rotting away unused.

I think part of the problem is that files generally aren't as user-evident as articles are (I mean, how often do you go to an image's page and just stare at it the way you might with a mainspace article?).

So therefore, I'm proposing one of two things. The first idea is that we basically just do away with BF:FILECLASS and delete all references to it around the site. I was going to unilaterally just delete it because there's really no need to have either page around.

Alternatively, I wouldn't be opposed to expanding the BF:CLASS system to include BF:FILECLASS and have both of them run concurrently. We would have to start emphasizing it somewhere, though. Юра  23:28, March 20, 2014 (UTC)

Discussion
Thoughts? Юра  23:28, March 20, 2014 (UTC)