[Vim-l] Deleting tips

[Tom Purl]

This all sounds pretty good to me.  The only thing I would recommend is that 
we wait longer than a week to delete a tip.  The original author may be on 
vacation or sick, and not see the message.  Maybe we should wait a month?

Otherwise, everything sounds really good to me.

On Sunday 17 June 2007 04:05, John Beckett wrote:
> Proposal for deleting unwanted tips:
> - Put {{Delete}} at the top of the tip page; see:
>   http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Template:Delete
> - Post a message to vim.org mailing list (when it works):
>   Subject: Wiki delete tip 124
>   Body: This tip is about ... and should be deleted because ...
> - After one week, if no serious objections, delete the tip
>   and adjust the links elsewhere to compensate.
>
> For example, if we delete tip 124, we would:
> - Change tip 123 'next tip' to point to tip 125.
> - Change tip 125 'previous tip' to point to tip 123.
> - Delete the VimTip124 #REDIRECT page. -or-
>   Replace redirect with a "this tip has been deleted" template.
> - Fix any other links to tip 124.
>
> Please comment on the feasibility/desirability of the above.
>
> See also a proposal to have a "Deprecated" template:
> http://vim.wikia.com/index.php?title=Forum:Deprecated_tips&t=20070617055416
>
> Following are three examples of tips to be deleted.
>
> Tip 124 is redundant as its author notes:
>   http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip124
>   http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=101
>
> Consider tip 436:
>   http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip436
>   Accidently typed control-u and lost your input?
>
> The tip concerns what to do if you type some text and then
> accidentally press Ctrl-U (deleting what you entered).
>
> Surely one should learn how Undo works, and ignore this tip?
>
> We won't do anyone a favour by fixing tips like this. For the
> tips to be useful, we must remove cruft. Let's not waste time
> fixing the typo in the title, and rewording the tip - just
> delete it!
>
> Another example proving my case is tip 403:
>   http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/VimTip403
>   Request for tip - interleaving '.' and '@:'
>
> This is simply a question about how to do something, and a
> comment that the comp.editors newsgroup would be a better place
> to ask.
>
> John
>
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