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adding further emphasis on delete command #2800

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Expand Up @@ -474,7 +474,13 @@ to delete (e.g., `Learn/Accessibility`), optionally followed by the locale
of the existing document (defaults to `en-US`). If the existing document
that you'd like to delete has child documents (i.e. it represents a
document tree), you must also specify the `-r, --recursive` option, or
the command will fail. For example, let's say you want to delete the
the command will fail.

**Important: you need to use the `delete` command to delete MDN documents. Don't
just delete their directories from the repo, as `delete` also handles other
necessary changes such as updating the `_wikihistory.json` file.**

For example, let's say you want to delete the
entire `/en-US/Learn/Accessibility` tree:

1. First, as we've outlined above, you'll start a fresh branch to work within:
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