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    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2012

    There have been several entries with no math content recently. What is the procedure? I am meaning: Search results for definion and The Enemy of my Enemy is not my Friend.

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    • CommentAuthorTodd_Trimble
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2012

    I noticed The Enemy of my Enemy is not my Friend is linked from differential topology of mapping spaces. I tried doing a rollback on the latter entry, but strangely the link seems to be there from the first version created by Andrew Stacey. Weird.

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    • CommentAuthorAndrew Stacey
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2012

    The “search results” one looks like something I’ve seen a few times but never quite understood: a blank s5 presentation. The second looks like someone clicked on a link and created that page from the list on diff top of mapping spaces. That list came directly from the contents of my lecture notes wherein I chose slightly more exotic section titles than I would on the nLab. It’s a project of mine to fill in all the missing pages but it gets held up from time to time by other things.

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    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2012

    I would move these blank pages to spam 6 and spam 7. No need to keep the redirects since the old page names should be blank.

    But I’ve discovered something weird about the spam pages now! Someone logged in as Stephen Alexander Spahn moved Witt vectors to spam13 and blanked it, which I’m sure the real Stephen didn’t mean to do. (He and Zoran had been working on it, as well as the pseudonymous creator.) There’s also a blank spam and spam12 with no history, also due to Stephen in name. I fixed spam13 (so it won’t work anymore, once the cache bug clears), putting it at the proper name Witt vector. I don’t know what to do with spam and spam12, I guess just regularise their names.

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    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2012

    I should add that all of these ‘spam’ pages are free to be reused as real pages with no need to keep the redirects. But only Zoran ever remembers to actually do that.

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    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2012

    I guess that Witt vectors was hidden away because the content went to ring of Witt vectors. So I’ve moved it (what used to be spam13) to Witt vectors > history so it can be found as past history of the article.

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    • CommentAuthorTobyBartels
    • CommentTimeAug 7th 2012

    Anyway, the procedure is:

    • If A contains history of a legitimate page B (even if A has been blanked since), rename A to A > history, make its only content < [[A]], and make sure that B contains [[!redirects A]] (unless B = A).
    • If A contains no mathematical content, move it to spam # (the next in sequence, found by searching the category) and make category: spam its only contents. These pages can be reused for other content; anything in category spam is effectively deleted (but with no special administrative powers required and the history preserved just in case).
    • If A contains mathematical content that we don’t really want, then the procedure is less well defined. We’ve tended to replace the content with something like The material previously here may now be found on [another site](http://uri).
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    • CommentAuthorTim_Porter
    • CommentTimeAug 8th 2012
    • (edited Aug 8th 2012)

    Thanks

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