[wiki] Page deletion guidelines
Pasi Lallinaho
pasi at shimmerproject.org
Sun Dec 15 06:06:57 UTC 2013
On 15/12/13 00:31, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
> On 2013-12-14 22:18, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
>> On 14/12/13 23:00, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>>> Bad wiki pages keep bothering me.
>>>
>>> I just created
>>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CategoryQuestionableContent
>>>
>>> Don't know if it's a good idea; maybe I should have added the "Candidate
>>> for deletion" tag to the page in question
>>> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf) instead.
>> I guess you could tag it with Tag/Deletion and Tag/NeedsUpdating as
>> well, with an explanation comment on the page. Using the tags is better
>> than categories, since the tags are clearly listed as well as visible
>> for anybody who loads the page. Also since other contributors know pages
>> are going to marked with them, they are discoverable easily.
> I do agree regarding visibility, but not about combining those two tags.
> It makes no sense to update a page that you think should be removed, right?
Or in the case a page has both tags, do either (removing) or (updating).
>> If the tag descriptions need updating (I'm sure they do!), please
>> propose a new description, or start a discussion (which we just kind of
>> did...)
> I modified the description of "Candidate for deletion":
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tag?action=diff&rev2=26&rev1=25
>
> I replaced
>
> "... useless to all Ubuntu users."
>
> with
>
> "... counterproductive and/or add negligible value considering the
> official documentation and other wiki pages."
>
> That change may not be completely uncontroversial, though.
>
I think this is communicated in some of the other tags, so I don't know
if the deletion tag needs it as well. Feel free to prove me wrong :)
Cheers,
Pasi
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