I know a lot of users don't like them, but that's quite absurd and disrespectful to the users who do. And it's more absurd to change the rules retrospectively, deleting an entire (helpful) archive of id questions.
Because some say won't delete them, here's what was said in that regard
Closing all existing questions (starting 15 days from now):
We will ask SE for help in automatically closing all existing identification questions and, for the time being, applying a historical lock to them (which makes them unvotable and uneditable by non-moderator users, as well as removing them from normal question lists).
Together with that, we will blacklist the identification tags (again with help from SE), which makes them unusable on any new or existing questions. The tag will remain on existing questions that have it (which will be locked for editing, though), making it useful for finding those questions for any further cleanup.https://movies.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/4087/we-are-discontinuing-support-for-identification-questions