[documentation] Where do old handbook pages go to die?

[Benjamin Melançon]

I think we should not ever delete pages and break links and cut off
the disturbing number of 4.6 users out there, but move pages to a
deprecated book, or section of the book, and that is the only place
(aside from old forum posts etc.) that they are referred to on
Drupal.org.

I feel very strongly that deleting pages so that the links are broken
goes against the way of the internet.  And for a change I'm not
entirely alone:

Jakob Nielsen: Fighting Linkrot
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980614.html

World Wide Web Consortium:  Cool URIs don't change
http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

I haven't done much of anything yet so I don't have a voice but could
moving pages out of the main handbook structure, rather than deleting
them, be official policy for obsolete pages?

Thanks!

benjamin

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