On 06/15/2010 01:41 PM, David Nalley wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Ian Weller <
ian@ianweller.org> wrote:
>> There's quite a few pages that haven't been touched since their import
>> from MoinMoin, and I'm thinking about mass-deleting 'em.
>>
>> Process for doing so:
>> 1) write script that finds pages that haven't been touched by anybody
>> except ImportUser and Admin
>> 1.5) blog loudly
>> 2) write [[Template:Quarantine]], which will throw pages that transclude
>> it in [[Category:Quarantine]] and explain that the page will be
>> deleted on or after September 1 if the template is not removed
>> 3) write script to mass-delete everything in [[Category:Quarantine]] on
>> September 1
>>
>> If somebody wants a page back and nobody did anything about the
>> template, pages can still be restored by an admin.
>>
>> Thoughts? I want to make sure that we have a pretty solid consensus
>> here before I go forth with this.
>
>
> No opposition here, but would like for a date to be attached to 1,
> 1.5, and 2 as part of this plan.
I concur with David. Sounds like a good plan.