Forum:Retiring The Sims Wiki News and The Sims Pen

Hi everybody.

I've been thinking of starting this thread for a long time, but I've decided to wait. Unfortunately, nobody ever bothered with it. I'm talking about The Sims Wiki news and The Sims Pen. Both haven't been written for a long time, and nobody bothered to write them or ask if a new issue would come out soon. It slowly kept disappearing into the shadow of The Sims Wiki. There is almost no point of keeping it on the wiki, unless if someone wants to resurrect and write them both again. So my question is: Should The Sims Wiki news and The Sims Pen retire and keep them on the wiki as a memory of good times, or should they be kept on the wiki if someone ever wants to write an issue. In the recent periods, I haven't seen anybody bothering about it, so I think that the first option might be a good idea. Maybe we can think of something else? I hope there can be a consensus reached whether or not they need to retire.

Sims   Player  (talk) (mistakes) 10:21, July 21, 2016 (UTC)

Discussion
They're already de facto retired, just haven't been officially declared that way. I used to write The Sim's Pen until a number of fanon editors took up the reins, so rather than burdening myself with one more thing to do I let them handle it and did The Sims Wiki News instead every week. And the week after that. And just about every week, with the occasional break when Auror or LiR decided to pitch in.

I stopped writing for two reasons: 1. Real life got in the way, and 2. I lost considerable interest in The Sims, especially The Sims 4. I just grew tired of lavishing praise onto the game when I despised it and the marketing strategies used to sell it. There simply wasn't anything new to the game that was new to the series. Clubs? We had groups in Nightlife. Kids stuff? We had Family Fun Stuff. Hot tubs? They were in the base game of The Sims 1! The Sims 4 overall had less content in it than any other base game as far as I know, and EA really has their eyes set on milking this cow to the bone. I lost count of how many crap packs they've released for the game already, and I am in no mood to constantly have to update the wiki templates to accommodate all of them, nor do I want to have to sarcastically announce them when SimsVIP does it already.

If anyone wants to start writing them again, go ahead. But for now I'm done. I find my retirement from standing on the front lines of The Sims 4 quite cushy. — k6ka  🍁 ( Talk ·  Contributions ) 12:42, July 21, 2016 (UTC)
 * Real life is to blame for my absence from writing the weekly news blog, as well. Not to mention, there are several weeks where there is little-to-no news worth reporting. We have to write a news blog regardless of whether there's anything actually worth talking about. I think it makes sense to keep the format of a news blog available to us when we want to use it, but not restrict ourselves into using it on a regular basis if we have nothing to report. Ditto for The Sims Pen. Additionally, we have The Sims Wiki:News for listing out recent news in the series when it does occur, and a portion of that page is automatically transcluded onto the main page. We can supplement this news feature with special blogs as needed.  LiR talk • blog  •  contribs 13:23, July 21, 2016 (UTC)
 * Support — I think that we should at least retire them for now, since there doesn't seem to be a strong enough argument, that we should keep them. If there's ever a popular demand for them in the future, we can always bring them back then. ―  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 21:43, July 21, 2016 (UTC)
 * Bump — It's good to see that some users have participated in this discussion. But it doesn't look like a community consensus has been reached. ―  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 09:58, August 7, 2016 (UTC)