ikiwiki/doc/todo/clear_page_to_delete.mdwn

Would it make sense to automatically delete a page if it's edited and
cleared to be entirely empty (or only have whitespace)? Discuss. --[[Joey]]

 I'd say so; yes. A method of deleting pages via the web would be great; I
can't think of a use of keeping blank pages around. What about vandalism --
if someone blanks a page and deletes it and someone else wishes to restore
it; or is undoing edits via the web a bigger issue? -- [[JonDowland]]

Of course there's already a way to delete pages (remove plugin). So the
question is really:

* Does it make sense to have a second way to do it, by clearing the page?
* Should it be enabled even if the full remove plugin isn't?

Re vandalism in general, I am generally happy using git-revert to kill the
offending change. --[[Joey]]

I don't think we need a second way to delete pages, which would probably be
used by the only few people who will learn it's possible by random
documentation reading, find it useful, *and* remember it. -- [[intrigeri]]

On the other hand, clearing the page's whole content essentially means deleting
the page.  That's what the user intended to do in this case.  The information
content of an empty vs. a deleted page is essentially the same, I'd say.  But
having ikiwiki remove those stale pages would save some (minimal, admittedly)
time needed for manual clean-up.  --[[tschwinge]]

On EmacsWiki, a page is marked for deletion when it contains just the DeletedPage 
keyword and if there were no page editions since XX days. Here, I use pages that
can be empty everyday and filled all day long. It does not make sense to me to 
delete these pages :). --[[xma]]

I was not aware of [[plugins/remove]]. I don't think another method is necessary -- [[JonDowland]]