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Profjim

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 658

Protocol for removing/marking wiki page as obsolete?

In particular I'm thinking of Wireless autodetection, which hasn't been updated since 2007 and applies to netcfg<v.2.0. But I'm asking about the appropriate general policy.

Should I just go in and edit the page and delete everything? Or instead mark it with some flag to announce it's obsolete? Which flag?

{{accuracy}}

? That doesn't say anything about being outdated.

flamelab

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From: Athens, Hellas (Greece)

Registered: 2007-12-26

Posts: 2,160

Re: Protocol for removing/marking wiki page as obsolete?

You can add this:

{{Message_box|
id    = out of date|
backgroundcolor    = beige|
signalcolor    = beige|
signal    = [[Image:Tango-dialog-warning.png]]|
heading    = This article is out of date.|
message = It contains dated information.}}

Profjim

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 658

Re: Protocol for removing/marking wiki page as obsolete?

ok, thanks---did you just search for another out of date page and pull it from there?

Gen2ly

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From: Sevierville, TN

Registered: 2009-03-06

Posts: 1,529

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Re: Protocol for removing/marking wiki page as obsolete?

The Category:Template page has all the templates on it.  It can be found in Wikihelp > Help:Template > Category:Template.

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Profjim

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From: NYC

Registered: 2008-03-24

Posts: 658

Re: Protocol for removing/marking wiki page as obsolete?

cool, thanks