I am unable to remove the "draft" in my page title

Question

I wrote a page a few weeks ago and I titled the page "[draft] Page Title", not realizing that putting draft in brackets like that would save the page as a draft.

Now, I want to remove the "draft" from the page title, but when I select "Edit" for the page, the page title is shown without the "draft" text, so I cannot delete it. The page has been published, yet it is still shown as a draft in the side bar.

I worry I've gotten myself stuck in a loop where the text in the title is causing Confluence to tag the page as a draft, but I cannot remove that text from the title!

Erin Bailie_ecnqxo · Answer

@Jack Brickey oh no! I meant to reply to you but accidentally left a comment on the post. The Atlassian Community throws an error when I try to post the same thing as a comment on your post. Let's continue the conversation here.

Erin Bailie_ecnqxo · Answer

Interesting. The draft does not show up in Recent > Drafts, nor does it appear when I select "view all drafts".

This is how it appears in the left rail:

But then when I open the page to edit, the [draft] at the beginning isn't show in the title:

Jack Brickey · Answer

@Erin Bailie , Well, that is quite the paradox. I just tested the very same (?) Process, and was successful in removing the draft out of the title. Here with the steps, I followed :

* I created the page with the [draft] in the title
* I closed the draft and verified it shows as a draft
* I edited again and published and verified that, despite [draft] was still in title, the draft designation was gone.
* I edited again and was able to delete the [draft] from the title.

my conclusion is that "[draft]" in the title does not result in a draft designation.

if you click on Recents in the main menu and then choose Drafts does the page show there?