User:JPxG/Slashed titles
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Per this database query, here is a count of how many pages on Wikipedia have different numbers of slashes in their titles. Obviously, a few slashes is normal (this page has one, User:JPxG/Oracle/2021 has two, et cetera).
However, when you get into larger numbers, it becomes evident that there are tons of glitched pages. To show you what I mean, this query shows all pages that have more than 32 slashes in their titles. These are all stuff like User:ClueBot III/Detailed Indices/User:JuventiniFan/Sandbox/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1/Archives/1, or User talk:Takamaxa/Archives/2011/January/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/April/Archives/2012/May/Archives/2012/May (which is literally an empty page).
That said, some of these archives actually have content in them. For example, User talk:Buster40004/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3/Archives/ 3 has a bunch of talk page discussions on it. Of course, this is a ridiculous glitched-out title for a page, but I don't think it should be deleted on that basis. However, there are a bunch of these pages with no content, that were created solely because an archiving bot went apeshit at some point.
| Slashes | Pages | Slashes | Pages | Slashes | Pages |
| 1 | 2743494 | 17 | 83 | 33 | 7 |
| 2 | 895911 | 18 | 41 | 34 | 17 |
| 3 | 178152 | 19 | 19 | 35 | 6 |
| 4 | 17141 | 20 | 86 | 36 | 13 |
| 5 | 1234 | 21 | 20 | 37 | 3 |
| 6 | 1746 | 22 | 33 | 38 | 7 |
| 7 | 2284 | 23 | 69 | 39 | 2 |
| 8 | 978 | 24 | 39 | 40 | 5 |
| 9 | 570 | 25 | 15 | 41 | 1 |
| 10 | 239 | 26 | 84 | 42 | 2 |
| 11 | 114 | 27 | 18 | 43 | 0 |
| 12 | 42 | 28 | 28 | 44 | 1 |
| 13 | 29 | 29 | 52 | 45 | 0 |
| 14 | 89 | 30 | 26 | 46 | 0 |
| 15 | 36 | 31 | 7 | 47 | 0 |
| 16 | 33 | 32 | 39 | 48 | 0 |
Based on this, I think there are a few different approaches that can be taken. This query shows all pages that have 10 or more slashes in their titles (1,305 total) sorted by page length. A bunch of them are zero bytes (completely empty pages). Many more are only a few bytes (User talk:Astroketh/Archives/2019/November/Archives/2020/February/Archives/2020/May/Archives/2020/August/Archives/2020/November, 15 bytes, consists solely of {{Talkarchive}}).
I believe that all of the pages that are precisely 202 bytes are blank ClueBot indices. User:ClueBot_III/Detailed_Indices/User_talk:HighKing/Archives/2013/March/Archives/2013/October/Archives/2013/November/Archives/2013/November/Archives/2013/November/Archives/2013/December/Archives/2013/December/Archives/2013/December, for example, has a dummy table with no content in it. This query shows all ClueBot indices that are blank and have more than seven slashes in the path (282 in total). With a couple dozen exceptions, all of these seem to be totally erroneous glitch pages.
As a minor curiosity, User:ClueBot_III/Indices/User:Bishalbaishya2012/Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives/ has the most slashes of any title on en.wp (44). Its sole content is a link to User:Bishalbaishya2012/Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives//Archives/, deleted in 2017 as a non-controversial CSD.