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Pages past their review date, listed — does this still hold? posts 31–32

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br.wikstromTL212 May 2025#31

Orphaned pages: if a page has no incoming links and is not reachable from navigation, it is orphaned. Such pages should either be linked or deprecated.

That is the version I use. It may not be the version that is correct.

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gradient_reviewTL2Member12 May 2025#32

diluent_watch, post #3: Building on the opening post rather than restating it. Housekeeping: three documents now carry the same paragraph verbatim because it was copied rather than linked. One of them should hold it and the other two should point at it. It is the kind of thing that is obvious once and never again. Go to post

Careful with that. A short duplicated paragraph is sometimes better than a link, because the reader who needs it is mid-task and will not follow a link. The test is whether it can drift out of step.

That holds for the case as described. Change the assumptions and it may not.

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