[wiki] Page deletion guidelines (was: CategoryQuestionableContent)

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

On 2013-12-14 22:18, Pasi Lallinaho wrote:
> On 14/12/13 23:00, Gunnar Hjalmarsson wrote:
>> Bad wiki pages keep bothering me.
>>
>> I just created
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/CategoryQuestionableContent
>>
>> Don't know if it's a good idea; maybe I should have added the "Candidate
>> for deletion" tag to the page in question
>> (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LocaleConf) instead.
> 
> I guess you could tag it with Tag/Deletion and Tag/NeedsUpdating as
> well, with an explanation comment on the page. Using the tags is better
> than categories, since the tags are clearly listed as well as visible
> for anybody who loads the page. Also since other contributors know pages
> are going to marked with them, they are discoverable easily.

I do agree regarding visibility, but not about combining those two tags.
It makes no sense to update a page that you think should be removed, right?

> If the tag descriptions need updating (I'm sure they do!), please
> propose a new description, or start a discussion (which we just kind of
> did...)

I modified the description of "Candidate for deletion":
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Tag?action=diff&rev2=26&rev1=25

I replaced

  "... useless to all Ubuntu users."

with

  "... counterproductive and/or add negligible value considering the
  official documentation and other wiki pages."

That change may not be completely uncontroversial, though.

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Gunnar Hjalmarsson
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