How do I make a blank confluence site?

Confluence tends to make it ‘easy’ to create a confluence site with a bunch of annoying ‘templates’ in it. If you did that then read about deleting pages.

But if you are more careful about selecting a ‘blank site’ you can avoid the busy work of deleting all the annoying pages:

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Confluence still puts in one more annoying page, this is how you get rid of that crap:

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