When I created an ikiwiki site (on Branchable) using the blog template, it added a "First post", which was fine.
Deleting that post removed it, but the front page did not get the re-generated, so it was still there.
--[[liw]]
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+> This is a bug involving the `page()` pagespec. Deleted
+> pages matching this pagespec are not noticed. --[[Joey]] [[done]]