One example:
  http://www.wowhead.com/items?filter=qu=0;na=glyph - Charred Glyphs are still "registered" as glyphs, even though they are not used anymore.
  There are many more of these, unfortunately, making the data base very incorrect in giving sometimes totally unusable results.
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+ Update: So, yes, I had a somewhat spare weekend and ended up playing around with things here and there ... As I didn't want to drastically change the SVN revision (don't know if I'd even have the permissions for that), I pushed it onto a sparkling new git repository. You can find my changes here: https://github.com/ckaotik/LibPeriodicTable. I'd love to see some of it implemented in live versions :)

  What is the enhancement in mind? How should it look and feel?
  LPT does need a general overhaul. That does not mean the data structure or the API functions. What I do mean is the data at its core, the sets and their names, classifications etc.

- As some might have noticed, LPT data is not very up to date anymore. i.e. even if it gets mined and mined and mined again, it still has some very old items in it, some items that changed categories (e.g. former crafting items that are now labelled as junk), some items thatsimply don't exist anymore ore get added/changed/removed in Cataclysm.
+ As some might have noticed, LPT data is not very up to date anymore. i.e. even if it gets mined and mined and mined again, it still has some very old items in it, some items that changed categories (e.g. former crafting items that are now labelled as junk), some items that simply don't exist anymore or get added/changed/removed in Cataclysm.
  One example:
  http://www.wowhead.com/items?filter=qu=0;na=glyph - Charred Glyphs are still "registered" as glyphs, even though they are not used anymore.

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  ckaotik Apr 15, 2012 at 22:19 UTC - 0 likes

  Somewhat major code changes, which can be found here: https://github.com/ckaotik/LibPeriodicTable

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  Zidomo Nov 29, 2010 at 20:13 UTC - 0 likes

  Nice job on working the miner to get it more up to date, Mr. Muffin.

  Yes, the unfortunate thing about Wowhead & similar sites is that they tend to have erroneous data floating about. Even months/years after a major patch. Wowhead is generally considered the most "up to date" & accurate web item data site out there, but still isn't 100%. But will have to do until something "better" comes along.

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  MuffinManKen Nov 17, 2010 at 01:12 UTC - 0 likes

  Since the data is mined from WoWHead we're all somewhat at its mercy. WoWHead still says charred glyphs go in an Inscription Bag, so LibPT says they do too. (As an aside, even through they're junk DO they still go in a Inscription bag?)

  A site like WoWHead will never be 100% up to date. I don't know if it would be possible to data mine the stuff out of the wow client files, but even if it is I wouldn't know how.

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  ckaotik Oct 22, 2010 at 08:58 UTC - 0 likes

  typos