I've always thought that blanking the page and replacing it with a template which says it's historical and *links* to the historical version of the page would be a good solution that balances preserving history with deemphasizing outdated information.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:06 AM, Dan Andreescu dandreescu@wikimedia.org wrote:
We have a documentation cleanup day coming up soon, and we've just got
delete permissions so we can actually clean.
Please don't delete old content, mark it as {{historical}} or {{outdated}} and archive it instead.
I'm all for following the norm here, but wouldn't that mean it still shows up in searches? That's what I'm trying to avoid, minimizing the confusion.
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