Deleting Knols

Deleting knols

You can delete a knol you own at any time. Click on the Settings link, then go to the Unpublish/Delete tab , and then choose Delete Knol. This will delete the knol along with all previous versions of it. Keep in mind that you will not be able to recover a knol you have deleted, and you will lose the images you uploaded into the knol. So use this feature carefully.

 

Step one: click on "Settings"  Click on the image to expand

 

Step two: go to the "Unpublish / Delete" tab Click on the image to expand

 

If all you want to do is make your knol invisible to the public, you can do this simply by unpublishing it. You (and your co-authors, if applicable) will still be able to see and edit your knol while it is unpublished, but it will not be accessible to other users.

Before you delete, please repair broken links

FAQs about deleting knols

I have deleted my knol by accident, is there a recycle bin I can recover it from?

No. Once you have deleted your knol, it is gone for good.

I am an author of this knol, but I can't seem to delete it?

Can I delete specific past versions of a knol?

• create a new knol, making sure it contains only the information you want to keep publicly visible.
• invite the persons you want to share ownership or authorship with
• delete the old knol.

You will have lost the history of past revisions and comments on the knol, but that may be an acceptable price to pay to protect private information.

Why is there still evidence that a knol once existed, even after I delete it?

This knol has been deleted

 

 

 

The knol you have requested has been deleted by one of its owners.

  

When I delete a knol, are all copies of it immediately removed?

• Deletions should take immediate effect in your account view. Residual copies of deleted may take some time to be removed from our active servers, and may remain in our offline backup systems.
• Links to deleted knols may temporarily remain in some knol lists, such as "Related Knols", "Similar Content", or "Also Wrote". Anyone following these links will encounter a message indicating that the knol has been deleted.
• If your knol had been published, it is possible that third parties may have made copies of it, through archival copies of the entire Web, through mirroring of knol.google.com, or through individual actions such as cutting-and-pasting your content onto a blog. Such copies are not under our control and are in no way affected by deletion.
• If your knol was published, it may have been crawled by search engines, which may retain cached copies of partial or whole documents in their indexes. It is common for such residual copies to remain for many days; each search engine has its own policies and procedures for handling the removal of content.

Can I delete my knol just by removing all of its content?

No. That just leaves you with an empty document -- which will get bad ratings and hurt your reputation as an author. All of the original content is still visible in the past revisions. Instead unpublish it or delete it.