So if an article is outdated, then it is ready for deletion....or ???
Is it wise to have outdated articles alongside the correct/newer ones,
thinking of e.g. building instructions it would at least confuse me.
but I have no problem using {{Delete}} thanks for advicing me.
jan.
On 26 October 2012 19:03, Keith N. McKenna <keith.mcke...@comcast.net>wrote:
> Jan;
>
> No the outdated symbol is different. {{Delete}} Is a template that puts
> the article in a special category to be deleted by an admin or by a bot.
>
> Keith
>
>
> jan iversen wrote:
>
>> Do you mean the "outdated" symbol, which should do just fine ??
>>
>> Jan.
>>
>> On 26 October 2012 17:18, Jürgen Schmidt <jogischm...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 10/25/12 9:19 PM, jan iversen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Maybe we could move them to an archive.... ??
>>>>
>>>
>>> I think we can find probably common consensus that we want to delete
>>> pages to clean up this old stuff.
>>>
>>> For example nobody needs today the old building guides. Let us focus on
>>> the future and here I think less but correct and up-to-date information
>>> is more.
>>>
>>> When I remember correct there exist a template that could be used to
>>> mark a page for deletion.
>>>
>>> Simply put {{Delete}} on top of the page
>>>
>>> Or we can create our own delete template with further instructions how
>>> to proceed.
>>>
>>> Administrator can for this from time to time and can delete stuff. Or we
>>> can try to cleanup such pages via a wiki bot.
>>>
>>> Juergen
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> jan
>>>>
>>>> On 25 October 2012 21:12, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Nobody want to delete information and wiki pages only admin can
>>>>> actually delete pages. Even then there might be some rights about
>>>>> ownership. Is like sourceforge dont delete inactive projects.
>>>>>
>>>>> Still good conversation to debate.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 10/25/12, jan iversen <jancasacon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> To my knowledge, articles that are marked outdated with a reference to
>>>>>>
>>>>> a
>>>
>>>> newer article stays in Wiki.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Would it not be a good idea to remove such pages, in order not to
>>>>>>
>>>>> confuse
>>>
>>>> users ??
>>>>>>
>>>>>> There are however no means, which I can find, to do that ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reason for my idea/question is that I am looking at localization
>>>>>>
>>>>> (l10n),
>>>
>>>> and there are a bit of old information.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jan.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> --
>>>>> Alexandro Colorado
>>>>> PPMC Apache OpenOffice
>>>>> http://es.openoffice.org
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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