Removing a calendar

Status: placeholder. This guide will be written before launch.

Removing a calendar is the heaviest admin action available. It ends a relationship between the instance and the owner, and it has consequences for everyone who was following that calendar from elsewhere. This guide is about doing it deliberately when it has to happen.

Planned scope

• When to remove a calendar: the rare cases where it's appropriate, named explicitly (CoC violations after warning, legal compulsion, an owner who's left the community and asks you to remove it, an abandoned calendar the owner can't be reached about)
• When not to remove a calendar: disagreement with what the owner publishes if it doesn't violate policy, dormancy that the owner could resume from, reports from off-instance that aren't policy violations on your end
• The mechanical procedure: how to remove the calendar in the admin tools, what the operation actually does to the database, what gets federated as a result
• What happens to federated copies: a Delete activity goes out to followers; well-behaved instances honor it; not all instances are well-behaved, so copies may persist on some
• Communicating the decision: to the owner first (where possible), to the followers second (if appropriate), in writing where you can reference it
• The "I removed a calendar and now I'm not sure" recovery posture. What's recoverable, what isn't