Forum:Deleted things never quite go away...

At Wiki 24, we have quite a strict disambiguation policy, due to the fact many characters are not given first or surnames. We keep hard-to-manage disambiguation pages down to a strict minimum, so for common names where there are lots of people sharing that name, we rely on wikia's search to show all the people with that name.

My point is this though - I discovered recently that deleting pages doesn't quite get rid of them. Someone on the wiki created a page called "Eric", which wasn't necessary as anyone searching for "eric" would get a nice list of all the erics from the wikia search. I deleted the page, but now when anyone searches for "eric" they get this: a little message about the history of the deleted eric page, and would they like to resurrect the page, etc.etc.

I know I waffled on with the backstory, but my question is - is there any way to delete a page as if it had never existed, so the wikia search still works when searching for its title?--Acer4666 23:02, July 5, 2011 (UTC)
 * I don't think there is, sadly. I don't know if it will go from the list, so I'd turn it into a disambiguation page. --W H  (Talk) 00:07, July 6, 2011 (UTC)


 * Your wiki is quite old - circa 2005. Old wikis tend to function differently from newer wikis; for one reason or another not every update propagates to every wiki. It's possible it's just a caching gap and it'll clear itself up eventually, or it could be that your wiki is sending people to the deleted page on purpose. I'd wait a week or so, and if the problem is still there, Special:Contact. If staff can't help you, you'll have to settle for a disambig.