At 06:21 PM 6/15/02 +1000, Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
I was going to use my shiny new sysop power to remove
an elderly empty
camelcase user todo page that's obviously obsolete. So I clicked on the
'delete' button in the menu and it said 'are you really sure' and I
clicked on 'yes I want to continue' and then I got a file 404 error and
the page is still there... is that because I am not actually approved to
delete pages? (fair enough if so) Or is there some kind of buggy thing
creeping in that you should know about? Or did I do something wrong?
The page I was going to get rid of is one that's been cluttering up the
orphans list for the last two months so it's hardly vital to continuing
operations!
http://www.wikipedia.com/wiki/WojPob/ToDoList
Karen Johnson, slightly puzzled
I run into this problem a lot. There's a bug in the current code; when you
click on the confirmation link and get the 404, you have to manually edit
the resulting URL to change the URL-encoded "%2F" into a "/". For some
reason, URL-encoding the slash in the article name screws up Wikipedia's
delete function.
Hopefully, this will be fixed soon. :)
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