I've always thought that blanking the page and replacing it with a template
which says it's historical and *links* to the historical version of the
page would be a good solution that balances preserving history with
deemphasizing outdated information.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Dan Andreescu <[email protected]>
wrote:

> > We have a documentation cleanup day coming up soon, and we've just got
>> > delete permissions so we can actually clean.
>>
>> Please don't delete old content, mark it as {{historical}} or
>> {{outdated}} and archive it instead.
>>
>
> I'm all for following the norm here, but wouldn't that mean it still shows
> up in searches?  That's what I'm trying to avoid, minimizing the confusion.
>
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