The Installation and configuration handbook has some questionable pages at the top level (the main contents links). It would be better if these were placed in a more appropriate area. They might fit better in a 'temporary' or 'working space' until they are refined enough to bring some value into the handbooks.

Three pages stand out from the rest on this: Drupal 4.7 configuration all around very very short tipps, the not so informative My presentation" and finally Dobro's Blog.

It may also be appropriate to do a one-to-one intervention with the authors to outline more appropriate places for this stuff.

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Thanks. Deleted Dobro's blog and My presentation. There were actually about 10 pages there that didn't belong (some support requests, some with just like 3 lines, a CVS shell script, some devel info about the node table, a draft of a new post, etc....), so did some additional deleting and re-shuffling.

I'm really hoping this newish "allow anyone to create a handbook page anywhere" thing is actually providing Drupal with more good contributions than bad. I've been deleting A LOT of spam/stupid book pages lately, it seems... esp. in the installation and configuration guide, since that's the first place a page will go if they don't change the selection.

We'll maybe have a think about some kind of code-level solution to this problem... maybe "locking" the addition of top-level book pages to members of the doc team, or selectively turn on moderation queue for specific books, or only allowing people to post book nodes after they've posted a valid issue to the issue queue, or...

Btw, I don't really know what to do about "tipps" http://drupal.org/node/70626 ... the user here has some good intentions, but the language, spelling, grammar, etc. don't make it very appropriate for the handbook, esp. at the top level. For now I moved it under the "Site recipes" section, which seemed to be kind of a mish-mash of user contributed suggestions, but that's not right either.

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http://drupal.org/node/23743 has the handbook outline.
site recipes is the catch all spot right now. the articles potential is why it's still there.

We've probably had more spam the pages but unofficial count is about 50%.

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