Delete By Moving

Wiki Strategy where, instead of deleting something, you create a page with a silly name and move the material there and link to it. It gets it out of the way, and is thus about as good as a deletion. But the material remains available in case someone else wants to make use of it. -- EdwardKiser

That's what the JunkBox is for. Eh?

Actually, it's pretty rude to just move somebody's contributions without leaving a forwarding address. If you are going to refactor some discussion to another place at least leave a note behind explaining what got whacked, why, and where its final resting place is. There is some discussion of this somewhere, but I forget exactly where.

This is a very useful strategy to restore order when people insist on sidetracking a page which (before their efforts) looked to have a bright future. Before finding DeleteByMoving, I was about to create a page terming it DisagreeByRefactoring?, but perhaps this name is better?

Man, this title really hits home to me right now. I'm moving almost everything I own into storage for the next month, until my new house is ready, as my current landlord rented my old place with two weeks notice to me: I tried to send him the message, "I'd like to stay on for another month" but he received "I'm leaving right away". DeleteByMoving isn't a metaphor for me right now, it's real life!