Hello.
Roan Kattouw wrote:
starttimestamp's description is wrong: it's really used to detect page deletions and recreations. If you want to suppress errors of this kind, use the &recreate parameter.
Thank you for your clarification. I have updated the documentation: http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=API%3AEdit_-_Create%26Edit_pages&...