The 2026 Drupal Business Survey is open. Your response will help shape the future of the Drupal business ecosystem.Old documentation confounds user contribution and dilutes quality help information available. It should be removed from outside search engines. For example, when searching Google for "Drupal site moved can't login" 2006 Drupal 5 results appear.
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Comment #1
batigolixI move this issue to the Documentation issue queue because I wonder if there has been any discussion going on about outdated content and how to make such old content less prominently show up in search engine results.
As I frequently use google to search on d.o. I notice that many of the returned search results are about drupal 4 & 5.
Comment #2
jhodgdonThis is a duplicate of a long-standing, never-resolved question:
#1026542: What to do with Drupal 5 documentation?
We can reopen that issue if anyone has a good idea of how to resolve it that would actually work, but for now I'd say it should stay at "won't fix".
Comment #3
batigolixWhat is your (& the Doc Team's) opinion on removing old (pre D6) information from handbook pages? I mean removing paragraphs from the text that refer to D4&5.
Comment #4
jhodgdonWe should reopen that other issue and discuss it there. I'm honestly not sure what to suggest, but it's probably time to come to some consensus on whole pages as well as sections of pages.
Comment #5
batigolixWe plan to review the handbooks for several mapping modules during the upcoming Drupal Dev Days and will surely run into outdated info. I ll try to collect some good examples that could serves as input for the discussion.