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In T198492#5471572 <https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198492#5471572>, @Anomie wrote: > Maybe that was true 15 years ago, but update.php seems well-established now. No, it was never true. update.php has been used to drop fields since MW 1.5, 14 years ago, but there was no backlog of undropped fields at that time. update.php has always been the correct script in which to drop fields and tables. Obviously we should take care to avoid losing data. But that's the case whether the update code is in update.php or another script. TASK DETAIL https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T198492 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: tstarling Cc: tstarling, Aklapper, Anomie, Jdforrester-WMF, Tgr, daniel, darthmon_wmde, DannyS712, Nandana, Lahi, Gq86, GoranSMilovanovic, QZanden, LawExplorer, JJMC89, B20180, _jensen, rosalieper, Agabi10, Wikidata-bugs, aude, Mbch331, Ltrlg
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