diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Deploy/IPreValueConnector.cs b/src/Umbraco.Core/Deploy/IPreValueConnector.cs
deleted file mode 100644
index 2a8f4e622d..0000000000
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Deploy/IPreValueConnector.cs
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-using System.Collections.Generic;
-
-namespace Umbraco.Core.Deploy
-{
-    /// <summary>
-    /// Defines methods that can convert a preValue to / from an environment-agnostic string.
-    /// </summary>
-    /// <remarks>PreValues may contain values such as content identifiers, that would be local
-    /// to one environment, and need to be converted in order to be deployed.</remarks>
-    public interface IPreValueConnector // fixme/task: rename to IDataTypeConfigurationConnector + kill all "preValues" name usage
-    {
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Gets the property editor aliases that the value converter supports by default.
-        /// </summary>
-        IEnumerable<string> PropertyEditorAliases { get; }
-
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Gets the environment-agnostic preValues corresponding to environment-specific preValues.
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="preValues">The environment-specific preValues.</param>
-        /// <param name="dependencies">The dependencies.</param>
-        /// <returns></returns>
-        IDictionary<string, string> ConvertToDeploy(IDictionary<string, string> preValues, ICollection<ArtifactDependency> dependencies);
-
-        /// <summary>
-        /// Gets the environment-specific preValues corresponding to environment-agnostic preValues.
-        /// </summary>
-        /// <param name="preValues">The environment-agnostic preValues.</param>
-        /// <returns></returns>
-        IDictionary<string, string> ConvertToLocalEnvironment(IDictionary<string, string> preValues);
-    }
-}
diff --git a/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj b/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
index 0ff88da2f3..e97fd0d8e0 100755
--- a/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
+++ b/src/Umbraco.Core/Umbraco.Core.csproj
@@ -564,7 +564,6 @@
     <Compile Include="Deploy\IImageSourceParser.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Deploy\ILocalLinkParser.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Deploy\IMacroParser.cs" />
-    <Compile Include="Deploy\IPreValueConnector.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Deploy\IServiceConnector.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Deploy\IUniqueIdentifyingServiceConnector.cs" />
     <Compile Include="Deploy\IValueConnector.cs" />