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
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. :)
-- "Let there be light." - Last words of Bomb #20, "Dark Star"
Bryan Derksen wrote:
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. :)
Ah, ok... so when I get the 404 error I have to go up to the url in the window and change the %2F to a / and hit return and then it will be able to continue? Just trying to work this out...
At 07:09 PM 6/15/02 +1000, Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
Ah, ok... so when I get the 404 error I have to go up to the url in the window and change the %2F to a / and hit return and then it will be able to continue? Just trying to work this out...
Yup. You should get an ordinary "page successfully deleted" response after that.
-- "Let there be light." - Last words of Bomb #20, "Dark Star"
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