There is a second interpretation of the words 'delete no content' which is an admonishment for
WikiGnomes to double-check their work before deleting something from Wiki. Have you checked your
BackLinks? Have you followed
HyperLinks to make sure they really are
OffTopic? Sometimes the linkages themselves are the content.
If you want to remove a page which itself contains no meaningful content but which has
BackLinks, consider replacing the links with links to a similar page instead of just removing them altogether. E.g. If Ham
Burgers has no content but Fast
Food does, consider replacing links to Ham
Burgers with links to Fast
Food (if it will still make sense given the surrounding text) before deleting the Ham
Burgers page. Also consider leaving the page alone.
Also consider that a no-content topic that sounds good and
BackLinks to several older pages might have just had existing good content which was clobbered - perhaps even double-clobbered - by an aspiring
WikiZen replacing the existing content with test content. Rather than removing the topic straightaway, check
EditCopy and perhaps
RecentEditHistory first.
Why? It's better to have a dangling link (so readers see there is no content) than a virtually empty page.
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