<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"><html><head><meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"></head><body ><div style='font-size:10pt;font-family:Tahoma,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;'><br><div id="1">---- On Mon, 14 May 2012 15:41:43 -0400 <b>Jeremy Bicha<<a href='mailto:jbicha@ubuntu.com' target='_blank'>jbicha@ubuntu.com</a>></b> wrote ---- <br></div><br><blockquote style="border-left: 1px solid #0000FF; padding-left: 6px;">On 13 May 2012 16:11, Phill Whiteside <<a subj="" mailid="PhillW%40ubuntu.com" href="mailto:PhillW@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">PhillW@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Hi CP,<br>><br>> one of the most important parts of the re organising the wiki area is NO<br>> DELETIONS!!!<br>><br>> If some one is happy with 8.04, we should not make them up-grade. their<br>> pages should be linked to. My suggestion is that such sub-pages required for<br>> the various releases are simply put into a contents section that states<br>> what version of which notes are applicable to them.<br><br>Well 8.04 is no longer supported except for servers.<br><br>Arguably, a "NO DELETIONS!!!" policy is a great way to end up with a<br>disorganized, not terribly helpful mess. Some things simply aren't<br>worth keeping around. Other content needs to be deleted if it is<br>dangerous or presents a much more complicated way of doing things than<br>the preferred methods.<br><br>Jeremy<br><br><br></blockquote>Deleting content related to non supported versions might be a subtle way to help get those folks to upgrade to a supported version. Especially if upon searching the wiki for something related to 8.04 or earlier, they are presented with a message that the version is no longer supported, and that to ensure they are using a secure version of Ubuntu they should upgrade...<br><br>I agree that nobody should force them to upgrade. But there is an argument to be made for not helping them stay on an unsupported version.<br><br>Chris<br></div></body></html>