[wiki] Page deletion guidelines

Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunnarhj at ubuntu.com
Sun Dec 15 12:42:17 UTC 2013


On 2013-12-15 12:53, Tom Davies wrote:
> On 2013-12-14 23:31, 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.
> 
> Hi :)
> The longer wording might just confuse people.  It is probably more
> accurate but the shorter line is friendlier and gets the point across.

Please feel free to modify it again, Tom.

But as long as it is a task of this team to weed out bad pages once in a
while, the barrier should not be too high. "*Useless* to *all* Ubuntu
users" does not make me very inclined to propose deletion. How about you?

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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