Hi everyone,
I've noticed that recently we had a couple of wiki page deletions.
I'd like to remind everyone that deleting pages on the wiki will result
in external (and internal) links to break, so it's usually better to
keep the page, but add text to it, pointing the reader to the new
location or alternative content.
By deleting a page, you also delete the history and any other traces of
the page showing how it came to be. Part of the wiki culture is to
preserve such history, but this isn't possible when you delete a page.
Example:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/FiscalSponsorship
was delete a few days ago.
You can still see the content here:
https://web.archive.org/web/20221001110336/https://wiki.python.org/moin/FiscalSponsorship
There are references to the page, which have not been updated:
https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonSoftwareFoundation#PSF_Fiscal_Sponsorship
My guess is that the PSF stopped accepting fiscal sponsorship requests
(see https://www.python.org/psf/fiscal-sponsorees/) and that's why the
page was removed, but this is not really the right way to go about this.
Much better is to add a note to the wiki page.
I'll fix the above and add a note now.
Thanks,
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