[Mediawiki-l] Help deleting pages -

[OQ]

On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Bruce Whealton
<bwhealton at futurewavedesigns.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>        Normally it would be no challenge at all to delete a page/article.
> However, some of my articles, that I recently created, must be named
> incorrectly.  I believe I have punctuation that is not allowed in a
> url/path/article name.  So, when I click on the link, I get a Not Found 404
> error.  On the front of my wiki I had a Recent articles list showing.  So,
> even though my site doesn't like the way I named the articles (I think it
> didn't like the comma), they are showing up as new articles.  In fact, I
> have 3 copies of an article in one or two cases and only one of them is
> named such that the link works.  The problem is that I don't know how to
> delete these pages that don't work, so they don't show up in a Recent
> Articles listing.  Can someone help,
> Thanks,
> Bruce

Just a guess that you're using short urls?

Just find the actual path to mediawiki and append
?action=delete&title=url+encoded+title+here

so:

http://www.yourwiki.com/w/index.php?action=delete&title=something