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# Don't delete pages unless you know how to undelete as well. | # Don't delete pages unless you know how to undelete as well. | ||
# Redirects to deleted pages should be deleted or redirected elsewhere to avoid broken redirects. | # Redirects to deleted pages should be deleted or redirected elsewhere to avoid broken redirects. | ||
# If an article title needs to be deleted, but some of the content could be used in a different (existing) article, proceed as follows: move the article from | # If an article title needs to be deleted, but some of the content could be used in a different (existing) article, proceed as follows: move the article from <span style="color:blue;">really silly article title</span> to a <span style="color:blue;">better title</span>, in order to preserve the history. Next, copy the content to the <span style="color:blue;">existing article</span>, with an edit comment like ''(moved content from really silly article title - see the page history of better title for author attribution)''. The <span style="color:blue;">really silly article title</span> will then be a redirect with no page history which can be deleted. <span style="color:blue;">better title</span> would then be changed to redirect to <span style="color:blue;">existing article</span>. | ||
== Things to remember == | == Things to remember == | ||