<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><!DOCTYPE article  PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.4//EN'  'http://www.docbook.org/xml/4.4/docbookx.dtd'><article><articleinfo><title>HelpOnPageDeletion</title></articleinfo><para><ulink url="https://wiki.helsinki.at/HelpOnPageDeletion/HelpContents#">HelpContents</ulink> &gt; <ulink url="https://wiki.helsinki.at/HelpOnPageDeletion/HelpOnAdministration#">HelpOnAdministration</ulink> &gt; HelpOnPageDeletion </para><section><title>How to delete pages</title><para>If enabled and allowed by ACLs, you can delete pages with the <code>DeletePage</code> action. </para><para><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata depth="16" fileref="https://wiki.helsinki.at/moin_static198/mandarin/img/idea.png" width="16"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>(!)</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> Note that deleting means to create an empty/deleted new page revision, it does not remove any existing revisions of the page. </para><para>What this means is that you can get back at deleted pages by reverting them to an older/existing revision (first display some older revision using the link from the info action, then use &quot;revert to this revision&quot; from the menu). </para><para><inlinemediaobject><imageobject><imagedata depth="16" fileref="https://wiki.helsinki.at/moin_static198/mandarin/img/idea.png" width="16"/></imageobject><textobject><phrase>(!)</phrase></textobject></inlinemediaobject> The only way to unrevertably and completely delete a page (including backups, history, attachments, etc.) is via the shell on the host system. The page files are found in the &quot;<code>data/pages/&lt;PageName&gt;</code>&quot; directory, and you can simply delete the whole <code>&lt;PageName&gt;</code> directory - no way back in that case. </para></section></article>