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Deleting Pages
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There are several instances in which you'd want to delete a page:

  1. You realise that the page you just created has a typo in the title
  2. You realise that the page you just created already exists under a slightly different name
  3. You had a bad stroke of delirium ecrivens and realise that what you have just written is diatribe and you'd rather noone saw it.
  4. ...

Unfortunately, there is no quick and easy way to delete pages.

However, there is the next best thing: you can make them virtually 'invisible'. This is done by removing all links to these pages from other pages. To do this, open up the page you want to remove, look at the list of 'referenced by' pages on the left (at least one), go to those pages and edit them, replacing the reference to the page you want removed by a reference to the already existing page, or just removing it.

In this way, the page (which still exists as a database record) will no longer be visible from other pages and hence will be 'invisible'. However, until other changes have been made, the page will still show up in the Recentchanges list, so if you want to hide what you've written, delete the text on the page.

For the time being, since I (and probably Arno, too) are recentchangesjunkies and the wiki is not too big, we will prune out pages which are obvious doubles and perform an actual removal. However, as the wiki grows this may become more awkward. If it is needed, we can always make a PagesToBeDeleted page which flags pages which should be deleted, but, as long as the links to the pages are removed, they will be as good as dead anyway.

--MortenPahle



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