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Would it make sense to automatically delete a page if it's edited and
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cleared to be entirely empty (or only have whitespace)? Discuss. --[[Joey]]
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I'd say so; yes. A method of deleting pages via the web would be great; I
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can't think of a use of keeping blank pages around. What about vandalism --
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if someone blanks a page and deletes it and someone else wishes to restore
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it; or is undoing edits via the web a bigger issue? -- [[users/Jon]]
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Of course there's already a way to delete pages (remove plugin). So the
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question is really:
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* Does it make sense to have a second way to do it, by clearing the page?
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* Should it be enabled even if the full remove plugin isn't?
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Re vandalism in general, I am generally happy using git-revert to kill the
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offending change. --[[Joey]]
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I don't think we need a second way to delete pages, which would probably be
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used by the only few people who will learn it's possible by random
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documentation reading, find it useful, *and* remember it. -- [[intrigeri]]
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On the other hand, clearing the page's whole content essentially means deleting
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the page. That's what the user intended to do in this case. The information
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content of an empty vs. a deleted page is essentially the same, I'd say. But
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having ikiwiki remove those stale pages would save some (minimal, admittedly)
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time needed for manual clean-up. --[[tschwinge]]
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On EmacsWiki, a page is marked for deletion when it contains just the DeletedPage
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keyword and if there were no page editions since XX days. Here, I use pages that
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can be empty everyday and filled all day long. It does not make sense to me to
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delete these pages :). --[[xma]]
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I was not aware of [[plugins/remove]]. I don't think another method is necessary -- [[users/Jon]]
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> Consensus seems to be [[won't fix|done]] as far as I can see. --[[smcv]]
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