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Offline Wanderer

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Deleting wiki articles
For the fellow sysops and other persons with powers to delete articles from wiki...

After move or such action.... please leave the created #redirect page alone (don't delete). Or make sure that no articles link to the page that is to be removed.

Please.
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Offline Goober5000

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Re: Deleting wiki articles
Well, I went through and fixed the broken links.  But I figured the deleted pages weren't likely to come up as search results. :(

 

Offline Wanderer

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Re: Deleting wiki articles
There are just my opinions but...

After page move we get an autogenerated redirect page which is quite usefull... For example if some one misspelled the search terms he might hit one of the redirects and still end up to the correct page (like Shivan Comm Node/Device thing). Also it means that we dont have to reset all the links.. redirect page takes care of that. And it might be usefull to have a redirect instead of deletion just for the same reason.
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