API:Delete/en

Token
To delete a page, a CSRF token is required. The CSRF token is the same for all pages, but changes at every login. CSRF tokens can be obtained via  with   (MW 1.24+).

Deleting pages
Pages can be deleted with action=delete.

Parameters

 * title:  The page you want to delete.
 * pageid: The page id of the page you want to delete
 * token:  The CSRF token obtained in the previous request. Take care to urlencode the trailing   as.
 * reason: The reason for the deletion (optional). If not provided, an automatically generated reason will be used.
 * watch:  Add the page to your watchlist
 * unwatch: Remove the page from your watchlist
 * oldimage: The name of the old image to delete as provided by

Example
Note: In this example, all parameters are passed in a GET request just for the sake of simplicity. However, action=delete requires POST requests; GET requests will cause an error.

Possible errors
In addition to the usual stuff: