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Just a bit of history here from ol' Grandpa Timeoin.

I remember looking that up a while ago, too. From what I can gather, this wiki was a bunch of other, smaller wikis merged together into one wiki, which at the time, was intended to be a lore-wiki only.

(From what I gathered, there was Daggerfall wiki, which was practically non-existant (the only way I know it existed at all is because daggerfall.wikia redirects here). There was also Wiki Scrolls, which was kinda like Imperial Library (ish) but a few select books. That one merged into the Daggerfall one, with the proviso they leave the tag there to differentiate. (A 'please dont delete my work, we have permission to have this here') kinda thing. Over time, they realised it made more sense to have it at elderscrolls.wikia, so that became the main wiki.

By Early 2011, when I started here, there was a 'massive' 600 pages on the wiki - in total. (Yes, seriously).

Then I became Admin. (Incidentally, EVERYONE on the internet said this wiki was rubbish (looking back - have to agree with them), and wed never amount to anything. (No, seriously).

Then we did the best thing weve ever done here ... we merged with the newly founded Skyrim wiki, whoch was very popular and was gaining lots of support and community as hype about the fame built Up.

FAST FORWARD ... midyear we merged with the last non-us elder scrolls wiki, The OblivioWiki, which focussed mainly on Oblivion.

So... in total, were actually about 5 or 6 different wikis in and of itself. Hence why there are (ocassionally) weirdly set out things, or pages formatted slightly differently. Theyre holdovers from one of the old wikis that make up the Elder Scrolls Wiki - the wikiscrolls thing is one such example.

TL;DR version: Yes, they can be safely removed. If I remember correctly, I was planning on doing so as one of my many projects to help the wiki back in mid '11, but then we had the disturbingly graphic picture troll, and had to get VSTF in to help us.... And then I just completely forgot about it in the sheer amount of work to be done!