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LQT -> Flow conversion: empty and broken LQT Archive 01 pages (by design)

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SPage (WMF) (talkcontribs)

Congratulations on the conversion of LiquidThreads pages to Flow.

Flow boards link to the "archived LQT version". But often there's nothing in the archived LQT version. E.g. Skin talk:Metrolook shows

If you follow the link to its LQT Archive subpage, you notice there's nothing on the subpage except for the template identifying it as an LQT Archive.

Similarly, Manual talk:Interwiki/LQT Archive 1 has no content except two broken templates {{Archive box|[[/Archive 01]]}} and {{help talk}}.

This makes sense if you read the link more carefully: "page history was archived." The only content on most LQT pages was a magic word turning LQT on and perhaps some templates guiding user to archives and how to use the talk page; all the actual threads lived in the separate Thread namespace. So an LQT Archive subpage is of no interest except that its history records these edits and any page content before it was LQT-ized. I guess any irrelevant broken templates on LQT Archive subpages should be removed.

I think the language in the templates {{LQT page converted to Flow}} and {{Archive for converted LQT page}} could make this clearer. Also maybe "/LQT history" would be a better subpage name, note how this Project:Current issues has both "archives overview" (interesting, actual content) and "/LQT Archive 01" (boring).

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