Outdated or Poor wikipages recomended for deletion

HOWTO: Manually build Pidgin 2.7.9 on Trisquel. This manual should be deleted for several reasons:

• A more recent version of pidgin is available in the repos and included by default for version 5.0 and above.
• The file "INSTALL" in the pidgin source code already covers the instructions for installing pidgin via source
• We should be encouraging (normal) users to install software via the package manager to prevent installation of non-free software by accident.

add-ons-0 This manual should be deleted because:

• This page is simply a redirect page that instructs the user to another page. We should just simply direct the user to the add-on page in the first place.

Installing & running XWAX This manual should be deleted because:

• We don't need an article on how to install every single program. Especially when the program is in the repositories.
• This manual is depreciated and hasn't been updated since may 2010. It is unlikely to be finished.
• If the user has questions on running the program they should seek documentation upstream because this isn't an OS critical application.

The Internet This manual should be deleted because:

• This documentation has little/nothing to do with Trisquel
• Most of the links are links to wikipedia on how the internet works. In that case if the user wants to understand how the internet works they should just go to wikipedia.
• Trisquel documentation should in my opinion help Trisquel users use Trisquel better. This manual doesn't help users use the operating system in a better way.

firefox-f1 This manual should be deleted because:

• It is simply just a redirect to another page (which I am also proposing for deletion for other reasons). We shouldn't be having redirects from one page to another unless it is for a very good reason (e.g. GPG > GNU Privacy Guard).

firefox-help This manual should be deleted because:

• We have a page for abrowser-help which fills this role. It is currently lacking in information but that can be fixed.
• Trisquel doesn't contain firefox.
• This page doesn't contain any particularly useful information. It explains what a browser is. The help page should be more of a support page with help for common issues.

I do not think that pages should be deleted. That is a Wikipedia policy that turns users away from contributing. Possibly merging or redirecting is OK because it uses the work done by the contributor. In the case of https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/internet I think the link should be changed to http://trisquel.info instead of the link they include in the example because it is an advertisement.

The goal isn't to turn people away from contributing. However some pages there are reasons why in my opinion some pages should be deleted. There are various reasons for this.

For example the firefox-help page we can't even merge if we wanted to. It is under a creative-commons sharealike license. The rest of the documentation is under GFDL so we can't merge it if we wanted. Secondly, we don't even have firefox in the distro. So it is kind of just this page hanging out in our documentation that we can't really do anything useful with.

Secondly, because of the actual lack of people working on the documentation (mostly only me at the moment) I do spend a lot of time cleaning up articles written by others and it takes a lot of my time. I don't know about others but I would rather have a few really good documentation pages then a lot of poor quality pages. IMO 1 good documentation page is worth more then 10 crummy ones. I was thinking about making a "manual of style" because it wouldn't be bad to have contributers have "some" rules to follow. Again this isn't to exclude people. Even GNU has coding standards. There is nothing wrong with having standards for documentation as well.

Regardless I am not in charge of deleting/not deleting these pages. I am simply just throwing out why I personally think they should be deleted because most of the time IMO they don't add to the quality of our distro. For example, if someone started writing documentation on replicant (free version of android) I think that should be deleted because it doesn't have anything to do with Trisquel. But the devs in charge can choose to agree or disagree with me. It is up to them. If anything then this list could simply be a list of poor quality articles that need to be updated if the official policy is non-deletion.

using-sidebars This manual should be deleted because:

• It is a empty page
• I don't know what "sidebars" the previous contributer was even referring to so I couldn't even write this article if I wanted to. The contributer is no longer active in documentation.

toolbar This manual should be deleted becasue:

• This manual goes into way way too much detail about the browser toolbar. It takes a pretty simple part of the browser and makes it seem overly complicated.
• I write manuals with a beginner user in mind but with that in mind you have to use the KISS (keep it simple stupid) policy. This manual goes into too much detail on some tiny piece of the browser.
• It would require a lot of cleanup to make it work and I don't even think we should have a special manual on how to use the browser toolbar.

themes This manual should be deleted because:

• It is a blank page.
• Themes for what? For abrowser? For Trisquel?
• Author of page is no longer active so he won't finish the page.

Security Features This manual should be deleted because:

• It is a blank page
• Author is no longer active.

Security and Privacy

• IMO it doesn't contain any REALLY useful information relating to security and privacy
• It is copied from an Ubuntu manual which means it is CC licensed instead of GFDL so it won't mix well with the rest of the documentation.
• Again, IMO I believe the two topics are very broad privacy and security. They if anything should have their own pages. While not mutually exclusive both are huge topics already by themselves. Combining them would result in a massive page if done to the full extent they deserve.

RSS/Live Bookmarks This manual should be deleted because:

• It is a blank page
• Author is no longer active

Deleted the empty ones, and the ones without content.

The ones with content has been unpublished, so they are recoverable.

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.