On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Chris Marshall <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7/25/2010 4:36 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > No. > > Please do not do that.
Why not? If you are not willing to delete stuff you will just end up an ever-growing number of useless pages, distracting users, leading them astray, and cluttering up your namespace. You will not get a quality site if you are not willing to delete bad stuff. Please take a look at some of these pages: * Mac OS X page: It has *no* information. What do you want to save? The page title? * Linux: 1. Ubuntu Edgy Eft ans Ubuntu Gutsy: Why in the name of heavens are there different pages for different versions of Ubuntu (btw, one is 4 years old, and one is 3 years old). Imagine for a moment what it would be like if you actually started doing this every version of Ubuntu, or even worse, for all the major distributions (e.g. Ubuntu, Fedora and openSUSE). 2. Why do we have pages for Knoppix and Gentoo but not for Fedora and SUSE? Where is the sense in that? And even if you add pages for Fedora and SUSE, do you plan to add pages for every distribution that is more popular than Knoppix and Gentoo? You *cannot* fix these problems without hitting "delete". The problem is that you have a bunch of pages that should not exist. Having these pages is incompatible with having a well organized and coherent install documentation. > *and* put a link to the old pages on > the new page as (deprecated references) until the > new instructions are in place and correct. There are no new instructions forthcoming for these pages I assure you. Do you really think that someone is going to regularly update a page that is specific to Ubuntu Edgy Eft? And even if we had people willing to regularly update pages for ever-aging versions of Ubuntu, would we really *want* that? Do you want to keep a page about Edgy Eft indefinitely? Do you realize that even *Canonical* has not supported Edgy Eft for more than 2 years? !! Similarly, Canonical's support for Gutsy ended more than a *year* ago. Does it really make sense to keep these pages just because someone decided to write them years ago? Daniel. -- Intolerant people should be shot. _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
