Zoe wrote:
I think the problem was that Google had cached our page, and I just
deleted it. You therefore got sent to a nonexistent entity.
I don't think so, because the link on Google was to the edit page itself, not to the article (see the end of the link, "&action=edit") - that's what worried me.
The page only existed for a short time, I noticed it on "recent changes" and blanked it, then Googled to find replacement text. You deleted it while I was gone (quite rightly of course :) So I don't think Google would be likely to have picked it up in that short time anyway.
I did a little more looking around. Google searches for some other non-existant pages have the same problem (I added "wikipedia" to the search to speed things up)
wikipedia "Spinal tumor" www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Spinal_tumor&action=edit
wikipedia "Alexander disease" www.wikipedia.org/w/wiki.phtml?title=Alexander's_disease&action=edit
It doesn't come up with all non-existant pages though: wikipedia "Benign Essential Blepharospasm" was OK for example.
sannse