1 Would it make sense to automatically delete a page if it's edited and
2 cleared to be entirely empty (or only have whitespace)? Discuss. --[[Joey]]
4 I'd say so; yes. A method of deleting pages via the web would be great; I
5 can't think of a use of keeping blank pages around. What about vandalism --
6 if someone blanks a page and deletes it and someone else wishes to restore
7 it; or is undoing edits via the web a bigger issue? -- [[users/Jon]]
9 Of course there's already a way to delete pages (remove plugin). So the
12 * Does it make sense to have a second way to do it, by clearing the page?
13 * Should it be enabled even if the full remove plugin isn't?
15 Re vandalism in general, I am generally happy using git-revert to kill the
16 offending change. --[[Joey]]
18 I don't think we need a second way to delete pages, which would probably be
19 used by the only few people who will learn it's possible by random
20 documentation reading, find it useful, *and* remember it. -- [[intrigeri]]
22 On the other hand, clearing the page's whole content essentially means deleting
23 the page. That's what the user intended to do in this case. The information
24 content of an empty vs. a deleted page is essentially the same, I'd say. But
25 having ikiwiki remove those stale pages would save some (minimal, admittedly)
26 time needed for manual clean-up. --[[tschwinge]]
28 On EmacsWiki, a page is marked for deletion when it contains just the DeletedPage
29 keyword and if there were no page editions since XX days. Here, I use pages that
30 can be empty everyday and filled all day long. It does not make sense to me to
31 delete these pages :). --[[xma]]
33 I was not aware of [[plugins/remove]]. I don't think another method is necessary -- [[users/Jon]]
35 > Consensus seems to be [[won't fix|done]] as far as I can see. --[[smcv]]