On 2010-08-13, Jürgen Spitzmüller wrote: > Paul A. Rubin wrote: >> Can we define a criterion for "outdated"? And should attempt to fix it >> or delete it?
... >> (I would vote for the latter, but I'm not entirely comfortable about >> deleting someone else's entries. If I find something I myself posted >> that is obsolete, I'll cheerfully recycle the bytes.) > The wiki is a collaborative tool. If we hesitate to correct, edit and > probably also remove other peoples entires, the wiki ends up as an > ecclectic piece of text which helps nobody. Remember that the history of the pages is available to all (with some extra clicks), so if you delete some obsolete info, it is not completely lost and people insisting on using old versions can still get the help by checking old versions of the wiki. (Maybe we could make this clear in an intro page.) Günter
