[wiki] Move instead of delete?

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2013-12-16 02:41, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
>> One idea is to move the deletion candidates to a hidden location as a
>> first step. For instance, the page I have picked on lately:
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf
>>
>> could be moved to
>>
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DeletedPages/LocaleConf
>>
>> Then, if someone screams, we would have the option to reverse the action.
> 
> The wiki has an option to Redirect pages, so I'm much more inclined to
> just edit a "To be deleted" page to put in a redirect in the body,
> even if it redirects to the home page of the wiki. This way we
> preserve history of the page in case someone needs/wants to resurrect
> it some day or needs access to the history for some reason.
> 
> Format:
> 
> #REDIRECT PageName

It sounds like that would serve the same purpose in an easier way. Are
such redirects permanent HTTP redirects, so the URL of a 'deleted' page
is removed from the search engine indexes?

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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