>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to the historical version of the page would be a good solution that balances preserving history with deemphasizing outdated information.

This would make info show up in searches still, which we definitely do not want. Seems that deleting is a better option.

On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 10:28 AM, Neil P. Quinn <nquinn@wikimedia.org> wrote:
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to the historical version of the page would be a good solution that balances preserving history with deemphasizing outdated information.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{{outdated}} and archive it instead.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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