X-Git-Url: http://git.vanrenterghem.biz/git.ikiwiki.info.git/blobdiff_plain/ef4b9b54206bec2930d387b57ebbb5d7b2a5dce2..4668c290e9c625682c998afc38b76215a212fc10:/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn b/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn index 1a0d3f008..50ae246bb 100644 --- a/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn @@ -14,3 +14,20 @@ question is really: Re vandalism in general, I am generally happy using git-revert to kill the offending change. --[[Joey]] + +I don't think we need a second way to delete pages, which would probably be +used by the only few people who will learn it's possible by random +documentation reading, find it useful, *and* remember it. -- [[intrigeri]] + +On the other hand, clearing the page's whole content essentially means deleting +the page. That's what the user intended to do in this case. The information +content of an empty vs. a deleted page is essentially the same, I'd say. But +having ikiwiki remove those stale pages would save some (minimal, admittedly) +time needed for manual clean-up. --[[tschwinge]] + +On EmacsWiki, a page is marked for deletion when it contains just the DeletedPage +keyword and if there were no page editions since XX days. Here, I use pages that +can be empty everyday and filled all day long. It does not make sense to me to +delete these pages :). --[[xma]] + +I was not aware of [[plugins/remove]]. I don't think another method is necessary -- [[JonDowland]]