DOC-1720 Customer-Incident-Delete Records

[micheleRP]

Description

This pull request improves documentation related to deleting records from a topic in Redpanda. The main focus is on clarifying the risks of using timestamps with the rpk topic trim-prefix command and ensuring users are aware of potential unintended data loss.

• Added a new shared warning partial (warning-delete-records.adoc) that explains the risks of using timestamps with rpk topic trim-prefix, including potential for truncating an entire partition if timestamps are unordered.
• Included the new warning partial in both the general topic record deletion documentation (delete-topic-records.adoc) and the rpk topic trim-prefix reference documentation to alert users in both contexts. [1] [2]

Resolves https://redpandadata.atlassian.net/browse/DOC-1720
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rpk topic trim prefix (SM, Cloud)
Delete records from a topic (SM, Cloud)

Checks

• New feature
• Content gap
• Support Follow-up
• Small fix (typos, links, copyedits, etc)

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