Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-12633677-20131211221128

I've been thinking about the Hall of Fame listings recently, and I have a very liberal idea: delete them. Now, wait a minute before you freak out. This is just an idea; something may come of it, something may not. Please remember that I highly respect all the work that numerous editors have put into these pages.

Reasons
The Hall of Fame only reflects viewcounts on Nico Nico. Nico Nico remains the biggest host of Vocaloid-related media, but what about bilibili and (especially) YouTube? It's just a fact that YouTube is the more popular host for English-language VOCALOID content. Thus, the Hall of Fame really isn't a good indicator of all the popular VOCALOID songs. There are even a few high-profile Japanese-language songs that aren't on Nico... hello Tell Your World.

We already have notable song listings. The "Songs Featuring VOCALOID" listings already exist, and have better criteria for presenting the notable songs of each Vocaloid, mostly because they have minimum benchmarks that can be adjusted.

A large number of Vocaloids have empty or almost-empty Hall of Fame pages. Most of the songs are distributed between the Cryptonloids, GUMI and IA. Again, this makes the "Songs Featuring VOCALOID" listings come out on top, because they have moveable minimum benchmarks. And again, because they include YT and bilibili.

Our HoF listings are outdated. That's a simple fact. And considering that there's a new song released every week that hits 100,000 views, we just keep getting further and further behind. We simply don't have the editors with the time or motivation. Is it really worth trying to keep inaccurate listings that, even if they are completely updated, will again be inaccurate within half a year?

But how will we know which noteworthy songs need pages? Well, first of all, the "Songs Featuring VOCALOID" listings. In addition, Serza has manually gone through our Hall of Fame listing and made a page with all the song that needs articles. (See: Wiki projects:Priority Song Pages). Besides, there are over 2,000 songs with the VOCALOID Hall of Fame tag on Nico. Which makes you wonder: with all these song in the Hall of Fame, are they really that notable?

Conclusion
SO... I feel the Hall of Fame does not reflect notable songs properly, it leaves out songs outside Nico Nico, the listings are too hard to update, and it is illogical for us to have both the Hall of Fame listings and the Songs Featuring VOCALOID listings. And one more thing... we are not responsible for keeping records for Nico Nico.

What are your thoughts on this? Everyone, please don't be afraid to speak up. This is a wiki, and that means your opinion is just as important as everyone else's. 