Save the Nodes: preserving old d.o docs by flagging it as deprecated

On the last hours of the coding sprint following the amazing Drupal conference, I accosted Steven Peck and asked in person about (one of my many) pet issues: that documentation (or any non-spam node) not be deleted from Drupal.org. Assorted drupallers wandering around MIT agreed with this in principal, but also agreed with Steven that old content referring to unsupported versions of Drupal would have to be very clearly flagged.

Enter the Term message module, which Agaric Design Collective hopes can address this problem.

Right now it uses the Drupal message system and I would like feedback on whether to use that, or blocks, or Drupal hook_help before working on theming.

I'm on the go all weekend and apologize for the hasty work, but this is quite important to me and I would even hope that it become official policy during and for Drupal.org redesign to only archive and deprecate content, never delete and break links.

Save the nodes!