How to change the original author of a page?

[Matt Baldwin]

Employee has left the company yet their picture and name remain on most pages. How do I remove or replace the author of all pages?

[Boris Berenberg [Atlas Authority]]

General answer to this is at https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-questions/How-to-change-the-owner-author-of-a-page-in-Confluence/qaq-p/6734

But wouldn't it make sense to keep them for auditing reasons? Just because someone is no longer with the company doesn't mean they didn't do those actions.

[Nic Brough [Adaptavist]]

To save you reading the link, the answer boils down to "don't".  It involves hacking the database and destroying your audit information, which really doesn't sound good to any compliance or regulator type people.