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Remove Corporate Marketing handbook; update all incoming handbook references

Why is this change being made?

In a coffee chat about practical handbook edits, @rclayman @bbula @jmatthewj told me that the corporate marketing handbook provides duplicated and outdated information. I was under the impression that it only collects sub-pages information, which was already moved out in #13991 (closed)

After removing the handbook page, I've reviewed all incoming references to /handbook/marketing/corporate-marketing/ and updated them accordingly. The data/redirects.yml file is left intact to keep the remaining existing redirects for bookmarks and external incoming links.

When applicable, Corporate Communications was added instead of Corporate Marketing. Same goes for Corporate Events and Brand, depending on the context in the handbook.

I used the search result from VS Code as a local GUI this time. This was faster to review and edit, than the CLI I showed in the coffee chat earlier ;-)

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Unfortunately, the changes are larger because VS Code automatically cleans trailing whitespaces in my setup.

I've also removed stale images from source/images/handbook/corporate-marketing, and moved the remaining images for social marketing into a new home in source/images/handbook/integrated-marketing/social-marketing, with updating the image embed locations.

There were a few locations in the community relations handbook that link to corporate marketing OKRs, or otherwise outdated content. That has been removed as well.

Will add suggestions for review in the comments, pinging for review.

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Edited by Michael Friedrich

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