<div dir="ltr">I agree though moving pages to an archive and putting a message on them saying hey this page is out of date or something of the sort, and putting them in an archive is the best way to go. </div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 3:35 AM, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph <<a href="mailto:lyz@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">lyz@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <<a href="mailto:gunnarhj@ubuntu.com">gunnarhj@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote: > On 2013-12-16 02:41, Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph wrote: >> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 5:33 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <<a href="mailto:gunnarhj@ubuntu.com">gunnarhj@ubuntu.com</a>> 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: >>> >>> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf</a> >>> >>> could be moved to >>> >>> <a href="https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DeletedPages/LocaleConf" target="_blank">https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DeletedPages/LocaleConf</a> >>> >>> 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? Good question! It's a "301 Moved Permanently" so yes, it should be removed from search indexes once the redirect is set up. -- Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 <a href="http://www.princessleia.com" target="_blank">http://www.princessleia.com</a> -- ubuntu-doc mailing list <a href="mailto:ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-doc@lists.ubuntu.com</a> <a href="https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc" target="_blank">https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-doc</a> </blockquote></div> -- Jonathan Aquilina </div>