[wiki] Page deletion guidelines (was: CategoryQuestionableContent)

[Tom Davies]

Hi :)
The longer wording might just confuse people.  It is probably more
accurate but the shorter line is friendlier and gets the point across.

Just my opinion though.  I can understand getting extremely frustrated
with the wiki as it is at the moment, particularly at this time of
year when so much is going on in various faiths and things like Black
History Month, Disability History Month and the darkest days of
winter.
Regards from
Tom :)




On 14 December 2013 22:31, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> 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?
>
>> 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.
>
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