Board Thread:Administrators' Noticeboard/@comment-25551198-20151031202005/@comment-25356303-20151103201816

The reason a lot of these aren't being deleted is because we have a LOT of stuff to do. Look at the Skyrim or Online Tasklists, and look at all of the individual tasklists on Timeoin's userpage (he has a ton of them). I have some smaller lists of things I need to do on my userpage as well, and several subpages (1, 2, 3) of stuff to do. We also have a lot of stub articles that need major expansion. There are HUGE numbers of other things to do on Special:SpecialPages, including creating, categorizing, and fixing pages, files, templates, and categories, and lots more. Then there are all of the stuff in the categories in Category:Maintenance, such as articles which need to be rewritten or need citations added, those that need to be moved in some way or another, incomplete articles, pages missing data (usually in the infobox), and articles that need to be deleted.

Now, I don't mean to be a downer, but that's an awful lot of stuff for us to do. The nice part is that regular users can do most of that stuff—in fact, I encourage you to do so; it would make our jobs a lot easier! What's great about wikis is that it's not just four or five people working on all of this stuff, it's literally hundreds. According to Special:Statistics, we have ~450 active users—that's a whole lot of people. If we put our minds to it, I'm sure we can get all of this stuff done. Additionally, our userbase is going to explode when a new game comes out... it's only a matter of time.

Also, in regards to the 2-link disambig thing—they're a very normal thing for wikis to have. One reason deleting them isn't such a great idea is because it makes any link from a lore or otherwise non-aligned page a mess. For example, if you're trying to link to "Battle for Whiteurn" from a lore page, you're hit a brick wall if that page isn't there; you can't link to either page without appearing slanted. Plus, 2-link disambigs are often expanded later on, meaning we'd just have to recreate them after a while.

TL;DR: the reason we haven't handled a lot of deletion candidates is because there's a whole lot of other stuff that needs doing just as urgently. We're going to get to it all, though it may very easily take a while, so be patient.