A wiki is a community effort. Even if those pages are out-of-date they might have information that could be of use trying to work out the new install directions or as a reference for older linux systems.
Once the replacement is in place and checked out, then the old pages are fully deprecated and may be deleted. Cheers, Chris On 7/25/2010 5:37 PM, Daniel Carrera wrote: > 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. > > > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 9.0.851 / Virus Database: 271.1.1/3027 - Release Date: 07/25/10 > 02:36:00 > _______________________________________________ Perldl mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.jach.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/perldl
