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Provide explicit info on SymLink handling

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Description

### Type of issue

Missing information

### Description

Provide explicit behavior details when the path is a symbolic link to a file. Does the target get deleted, or only the link itself?

### Page URL

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.io.file.delete?view=net-10.0#remarks

### Content source URL

https://github.com/dotnet/dotnet-api-docs/blob/main/xml/System.IO/File.xml

### Document Version Independent Id

d20c05c2-d454-d4d6-8693-a023786e18f6

### Platform Id

97a38b7a-7440-4368-7651-cb715b00e0fb

### Article author

@dotnet-bot

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