Compost Heap

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This wiki contains text deleted in other pages, if there is a chance that it may still have some use.

Typical situations:

  • You're pruning or Master Editing a wiki that contains discussions, although it is not a ...Discussion wiki. Often, these discussions end in a clarification which you could easily include in the body text. Out of respect you do not want to simply throw away all the contributions. After all, they may contain an aspect that you overlooked. In most of these cases there is no corresponding Discussion wiki, where you could move it.
  • You wrote something stupid. Someone caught you. You feel your text and the reply only distract from the topic. But the reply may contain points that the writer would want to keep. You may want to add:
 Moved because XYZ convinced me, and I changed the text accordingly.

In these cases, please proceed as follows:

  1. Cut these texts from the original page.
  2. Replace them with a reference such as ''(Moved "Beginning of Text ..." to [Compost Heap])''
  3. Paste text at the bottom of this page, preceded with a link to the source and expiration date (suggested: 1 month).
  4. If there is expired text on this page: Delete it and
  5. delete the expired references to [Compost Heap] in the original pages.

Q&A

Q: We already keep the deleted files in the page history. Why do we need yet another page?

A: It is not so easy to retrieve part of a previous page from the history (especially if you want to keep formatting) and it may be rude to simply delete possibly valuable contributions.

Q: Why not use a Discussion page? for this?

A: If this discussion merits to be kept for posteriority - by all means, put it there. But if you want it to be deleted after a grace period, put it on this page.

Sprouting

When you keep a compost heap, it sometimes happens that seeds sprout from the material you deposited. If you see this happening here, take them out carefully and plant them on a page where they can grow, before they get deleted on this page.


Template

expires 2004-12-31 (From [nowhere|303#0], deleted because it now has been implemented.)



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