Re: Wiki: Remove some outdated pages?

KaiDleo Gaming <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.www
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Why not just update the outdated pages with new ones...i know it will take
some time but that should solve the issue

On Mon, Mar 24, 2025, 20:24 Donald Norwood <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 3/24/25 09:01, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 24, 2025 at 01:51:31PM +0100, Thomas Lange wrote:
> >>>>>>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2025 12:39:10 +0000, Steve McIntyre <
> [email protected]> said:
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> >>    > Why remove documentation on what has been considered and done in
> the
> >>    > web team? What harm are those pages causing?
> >> To improve the ratio between good and outdated content.
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> > Just because content is not super-fresh, that does not make it
> > *bad*. What happens when people start planning another project and
> > look for documentation about what was considered and what happened
> > last time, for example?
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> > This is *not* user-facing documentation, this is documentation about
> > what has been worked on inside the web team. By all means move/rename
> > it under the team's area in the wiki, but *don't* just remove it
> > because it's old.
> >
> > Deletion of history *for the sake of it* is not helpful.
> >
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> Both of you make valid points, perhaps we come up with another option to
> add a header stating the article/documentation is no longer relevant
> pointing to a new link as is practice elsewhere, or we come up with an
> 'archived' flag which could equally show the page is not longer relevant.
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