Illerai:Requests for deletion/OSBuddy

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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. The result was Withdrawn.

OSBuddy

The infamous predecessor to RuneLite, the article on OSBuddy has been a stub since its creation from a year ago, and may aswell permanently be so because it is no longer receiving updates to take peoples' interest to it. Most of the article's size is dedicated to presenting links to the subject's website and the recent scams surrounding it. I propose the article be deleted and its info be moved to a more general game client page (when it is converted from a disambiguation) instead of having a fully featured page for itself.

Delete - As nom Shayani (talk) 17:51, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Oppose — Although OSBuddy is now defunct, it has undeniably played a huge role in shaping both official client features, as well as paving the way for its entire category of "legit" clients, (Konduit, Runelite, HDOS) which hook into and interact with the official game client in a way that did not exist prior to its introduction. Without OSBuddy, Old School RuneScape would have been a very different game. I have been doing some research on the timeline of OSBuddy in preparation to un-stubbify its article. Personally I believe that although it has had its controversies, the history of OSBuddy and the effect that its contributions had on the community (continuing to today) deserves to be documented. —Logg(talk) 18:03, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Support - I'd like to additionally suggest having OSBuddy be a protected redirect to the relevant section of the game client page, given recent edits to the OSBuddy page to remove warnings about the scams. Duralith (talk) 18:07, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Changing to Oppose - upon further thought I think it's better to have a protected page for historical reasons. Duralith (talk) 18:29, 15 September 2023 (UTC)


Oppose – If RL and HDOS have a page, so should OSB, despite being now defunct. Logg makes good points about how the article can be expanded and it is a notable subject. The potential for scams is irrelevant – I'd rather have the page fully and permanently protected than to delete the page because of them; in fact, having an article will help unaware readers learn that it doesn't exist anymore and be vigilant about scams instead of being left wondering and gullible for a scam. --julia talk 18:21, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

Withdrawn as there's now more eyes on the article so naturally the page quality will be upgraded soon, making this RfD completely moot. Shayani (talk) 18:47, 15 September 2023 (UTC)

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. No further edits should be made to this page.
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