> On Jun 16, 2026, at 2:35 PM, Philippe Cloutier <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
> I may misunderstand what you are proposing, but I am skeptical about your 
> proposal. To make an analogy with Wikipedia, it has countless outdated pages, 
> and countless current pages, but pages in the first group have nothing 
> logical in common, besides getting insufficient love. The English Wikipedia 
> only (tries to) group outdated pages in a category to track pages which need 
> work: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Articles_with_obsolete_information
> 
> I fail to see how httpd webpages could be split. What I agree would be a good 
> idea would be to add warnings on outdated content. Wikipedia templates allow 
> doing it at the article section level, as in the following case: 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Civil_Aviation_Organization#Environment
> Template:Update also allows specifying a date, quantifying how bad the 
> problem is.


Yes, you appear to be misunderstanding, and the wikipedia analogy is not 
apropos. Historical content is not outdated, it’s a historical record.

> 
> Or are you saying there is content which you consider "historical", in the 
> sense that it *should not* be updated? Perhaps examples of what you suggest 
> qualifying as historical would clarify.

We’re discussing one. The list of contributors to the project is not 
*outdated*. It’s a historical record. It is still true and relevant, in that it 
gives credit to those who came before us.

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