Well, the pages that you do not want are called "disambiguation" pages. They all should have a template that adds them to the category "All disambiguation pages" on en.wikipedia. You can check for that category on your pages so you know which ones to manually review.

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On Dec 28, 2012 11:19 PM, "NetizenApps" <netizenapps@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thanks Brad.
>
> So is title the most recommended way to query the article page content?
>
> Right now, even though I am using custom bot to ensure presence of article pages in wikipedia for my database of wikipedia title queries, I am doing manual verification of all my hundreds of pages to ensure correct relevant article page is fetched. This is especially true when multiple entries exist for same common title.
>
> I want to avoid doing this manual verification of all my pages again in future.
>
> Is there a way to query and know 'page move history' if we give the time range as input?
>
> This info will help me avoid doing manual verification of all my pages from time-to-time assuming some pages may have moved. I can just run a bot program to know what all pages are moved in last 1 or 2 years and then do manual verification of only those pages that moved in this time period to ensure correct relevant article page is fetched.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
> Ravi
>
> On Dec 24, 2012, at 6:04 AM, Brad Jorsch <bjorsch@wikimedia.org> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 8:56 AM, NetizenApps <netizenapps@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> I found that using title to query is not reliable as I have seen titles changing when more articles with same/similar titles are being added. Some of the older titles now lead to generic page stating this title might mean one of the following in the list and a list of article pages links are shown below this message. . I want to avoid getting redirected to this generic page and always stay on the article page as I plan to show this Wikipedia content on my numerous sub-domain home pages.
> >
> > You're not actually being redirected. It's just that the old page was
> > moved and a new page created at the old title.
> >
> >> Is there a page id that I can use which doesn't change at all and is always associate to same article? If so, how can I query the page id using current titles? Any  examples and pointers is very much appreciated.
> >
> > There's the pageid, which can be queried using pageids instead of
> > titles.[1] Note though that if the page is deleted and then undeleted
> > (or recreated), a new pageid may be assigned.
> >
> > [1]: e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&pageids=15580374
> >
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