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@@ -18,3 +18,9 @@ offending change. --[[Joey]]
I don't think we need a second way to delete pages, which would probably be
used by the only few people who will learn it's possible by random
documentation reading, find it useful, *and* remember it. -- [[intrigeri]]
+
+On the other hand, clearing the page's whole content essentially means deleting
+the page. That's what the user intended to do in this case. The information
+content of an empty vs. a deleted page is essentially the same, I'd say. But
+having ikiwiki remove those stale pages would save some (minimal, admittedly)
+time needed for manual clean-up. --[[tschwinge]]