[wiki] Page deletion guidelines

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
How about a tag that says something like

"possible duplicate"

and hopefully people would give a link to the pages that they think do
duplicate the information that is in the page?
Regards from
Tom :)




On 15 December 2013 07:44, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 2013-12-15 07:06, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
>> On 15/12/13 00:31, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>>>
>>> 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 :)
>
> Since you claim so, I'd say that you have the burden of proof. ;-) But
> in any case I think there is a need to include it for the deletion tag
> specifically. If I find confusing or counterproductive recommendations
> on a page, I can edit it without making use of tags, but if I find that
> a page as a whole is confusing or counterproductive, I can't delete it
> myself.
>
> In general the Tag page states 'formal' criteria for using the various
> tags - version, the WikiGuide, spelling/grammar/structure, length - and
> not content quality criteria. I don't know if this is intentional - too
> 'dangerous' to be subjective? - but I feel that it kind of holds me back.
>
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