[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #4535: Delete "Hello World" posts (and tidy up empty blogs)

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#4535: Delete "Hello World" posts (and tidy up empty blogs)
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 Reporter:  jonoaldersonwp                 |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  defect                         |     Status:  new
 Priority:  high                           |  Milestone:
Component:  International Sites (Rosetta)  |   Keywords:  seo
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 Various Rosetta sites have a blog with a "Hello World" post. These should
 be deleted.
 Because of the incorrect hreflang setup on these sites, these posts cause
 an absolute SEO nightmare as Google seeks out their (non-existent)
 siblings across the whole network.

 E.g.,
 https://tg.wordpress.org/2012/08/23/hello-world/
 https://tt.wordpress.org/2014/07/08/hello-world/
 https://fao.wordpress.org/2016/07/20/hello-world/
 https://dzo.wordpress.org/2015/02/24/hello-world/
 https://kab.wordpress.org/2015/02/24/hello-world/
 https://sa.wordpress.org/2011/07/26/hello-world/
 https://hau.wordpress.org/2016/07/15/hello-world/
 https://bre.wordpress.org/2015/07/17/hello-world/
 https://ak.wordpress.org/2016/03/05/hello-world/
 https://es-pr.wordpress.org/2016/03/05/hello-world/
 https://rup.wordpress.org/2016/03/05/hello-world/

 I don't have an easy way of finding them all from the outside-in - I'm
 hoping that these should be easy to round up?

 It's also worth considering that in many cases, these are the only blog
 posts on these blogs. E.g., https://dzo.wordpress.org/news/,
 https://bre.wordpress.org/news/

 When that's the case and we're removing them, can we also please:

 - Remove the entire blog
 - Remove menu links to the (removed) blog
 - 301 redirect requests to the blog root URL (e.g.,
 https://bre.wordpress.org/news/) to the local site root (e.g.,
 https://bre.wordpress.org/)

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Ticket URL: <https://meta.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/4535>
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