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Delete php pages of a part of our site

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I want to delete a part of site which has 5 pages(these pages handle around 10,000 articles),but i i'm worry about google indexes of these pages,please let me know what is the best solution?

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What do you want to happen? If you delete the pages that Google links to, the Google links won't work anymore. Are you asking how to handle visitors when they go to the missing pages?
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Yes,if i delete then the pages that are indexed in google , find by users and encounter with error 404.
What do you mean "find by users" ? If the page is missing, the 404 should be the default status code.
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Thanks Ray;
I cannot tell google that no-index these 5 pages or remove from its index?
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And if i make noindex for these pages,does it need that i delete these pages from my server?
It is clear that if i put noindex in pages and then delete the pages google cannot see its, i forget to write "delete after some weeks" .