Talk:Projects needs cleanup

[eekee]

I'm posting because I'm not sure of the etiquette of deleting or editing content in talk pages, but Talk:Projects is a mess with some misleading info.

Here's the issues with my opinions/questions on what to do about them:

• Mirroring ignores the CC0 license and its example link has been dead for at least 11 years. Perhaps rewrite it as a suggestion to reflect the CC0 license.
• Format is is correct to insist on alphabetical order, but otherwise out of date, ignoring the template we use. Perhaps the template should be included here as a code block.
• TODO...
  • The wikipedia entry should link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_o ... tems#Hobby if we're going to keep it. We don't list everything it lists. Or perhaps we should just link that on the main page. (Less work ftw!)
  • xos is a dead link (timeout) -- just remove?
  • comos is already on the abandoned projects page. remove.
  Should we remove the section altogether?
• Dating has been done and continues to be updated. Remove.
• Entry Template is misleading. It's substantially different from the template presently in use. I think we should remove it and add the correct template to Format as above.
• Dead Websites is fine. Keep, but perhaps add reply with what to do if the code is not archived. What should that reply be?
• About dead websites is a confused unsigned reply to the previous. Remove and consider moving the essence of its content as noted above.

Suggestions and differences of opinion welcome.

[JackScott]

I agree with all your points.

In terms of unarchived websites and source code, my suggestion would be that if the only link available for a project is archive.org, then the project should be considered abandoned and can be removed from the projects list and moved to the abandoned projects page.