User blog comment:Toughpigs/WikiStickies - new feature launching on My Home/@comment-10370-20091216154625

That's happening because of the welcome message... WikiStickies is pulling articles from Special:Wantedpages -- looking for articles that have red links pointing to them.

The automatic welcome message used to include a link to the page that the new editor worked on -- and if that was a spam/inappropriate page that got deleted, then that link became a red link.

WikiStickies only pulls wanted pages that have two or more links pointing to it, so if a deleted page only has one link pointing to it, then it doesn't show up -- but it does show up if the deleted page was posted twice, by two different users/IPs.

So there's a long-term solution for this, which we've done -- the default welcome message doesn't include a link to the page that the person worked on anymore, so this problem shouldn't come up in the future.

There are a couple short-term solutions to clean up WikiStickies that show "wanted pages" that you don't really want. One is to click on the link and then click "what links here", and remove the links that point to the unwanted page. The other is to make the unwanted page a redirect to something else -- the main page, or whatever -- which will make that drop out of the wanted pages list.

I went to Cats Wiki and Children's Books Wiki and cleaned up the unwanted pages there... They'll drop out of WikiStickies when the Wanted pages cache clears.