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["Leigh Tate" <leigh.tate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you so much David. We all know how busy you are, but your input is very much needed for NewDocs.

Geoff, I'll let you comment on these, since you pointed out the other possibilities to begin with.

Svetlana, do you have any input as well? I'm guessing you're still getting your bearings in regards to what we're doing, but I know you have the knowledge to help make NewDocs the easy to use, up to date work tool we're aiming for.

Best wishes,
Leigh
----- Original Message -----
From: David Manuel Pires
Sent: 01/29/14 07:29 AM
To: newdocs
Subject: [Newdocs] Fwd: NewDocs D page

Hi team.

On 28 January 2014 15:01, Leigh Tate < leigh.tate@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > wrote:

Since we're making some progress on "Listing some Menu Selections in CAPITALS?," I thought I'd go ahead and shoot this out to you all for feedback in case we want to post it first to our Forum's wiki thread. Also I wanted to mention that we have quite a winter storm headed our way and that if for some reason you don't hear from me for awhile, it may be because our electricity is out.

Anyway, here are my findings for the NewDocs D page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/D . I checked for outdated and tagged pages, for those addressing versions of Ubuntu no longer supported, and for anything else that might need to be addressed. Below is what I found, plus I have questions which I will pose first.

QUESTIONS:

Some are links to websites rather than wiki help pages. For example,
- all of the Debian pages
- Debugging Dpkg problems http://shearer.org/Debugging_Dpkg_Problems 
- Ubuntu Design Blog http://design.canonical.com/ 
- Devices http://www.ubuntu.com/phone  (acutally "Ubuntu on phones")

1. Should they be left on the D page or moved to Helpful Links https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Links ?
2. Do we need the last two at all since they have nothing to do with help?

I agree with your reasoning, Leigh. The Debugging Dpkg problems http://shearer.org/Debugging_Dpkg_Problems  should be moved to the Helpful Links https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Links  pages.
The other two are kind of tricky, if we take Geoff's arguments into account, I can see a reason for keeping them, but to be honest I'm with Leigh on this and I think they should be dropped completely from NewDocs since they're not at related to NewDocs's aim. Perhaps the team could vote on a final decision. 

Below are pages that are candidates to be moved to ToBeReviewed https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ToBeReviewed  unless anyone thinks otherwise for any of them.

OUTDATED PAGES:

DansGuardian  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DansGuardian (last edited 2011-08-27)
DeletingFiles https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DeletingFiles  (last edited 2011-04-08)

DemystifyingUnityGraphicsHardwareRequirements https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DemystifyingUnityGraphicsHardwareRequirements  (last edited 2011-05-06)
DMZ host with SecurePass https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DMZ%20host%20with%20SecurePass  (last edited 2012-02-08)
Dnsmasq https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Dnsmasq  (last edited 2011-12-15)
DrivesAndPartitions https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DrivesAndPartitions  (last edited 2011-05-19)
DualBoot  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DualBoot  (last edited 2012-01-16)
DynamicMultiMonitor https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DynamicMultiMonitor  (last edited 2011-10-14)

Besides the DeletingFiles https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DeletingFiles  page, which I think should be kept because its contents are correct since there wasn't no changes in those CLI commands, all the others should be moved to ToBeReviewed https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ToBeReviewed .

TAGGED PAGES:

"this page does not exist yet"
DebianImportFreeze https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebianImportFreeze 
DownThemAll https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DownThemAll 

"needs expansion"
DigitalCameraHowTo https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DigitalCameraHowTo 

"This page does not reach the quality of the UserDocumentation https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UserDocumentation  series of index pages, but contains useful information"
DVDAuthoring  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DVDAuthoring  (also probably outdated - last edited 2010-06-05)

Agree on all. Like Geoff I also don't have the slightest idea from where that Debian page come from.

UBUNTU VERSIONS NO LONGER SUPPORTED: none, but see below.

I recommend removing the following two pages altogether:

Debugging Sound Problems https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DebuggingSoundProblems  - redirects to SoundTroubleshooting https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SoundTroubleshooting?action=show&redirect=DebuggingSoundProblems  which advises the info is largely outdated.
DRBD https://help.ubuntu.com/community/DRBD  (blank page last edited 2010-03-09). This could be moved toToBeReviewed https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ToBeReviewed if we think someone might do something with it.

Yes, Leigh. No doubts about those, also.

Cheers,
David

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