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@@ -14,3 +14,13 @@ question is really:
Re vandalism in general, I am generally happy using git-revert to kill the
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]]