title: How to delete a work item in TFS 2012?
body: <p>This has been asked before but I'm struggling to find a way to delete a work item in Team Foundation Server. This looks promising:
  <a href="http://devmatter.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/deleting-work-items-in-tfs-ui.html" rel="nofollow">http://devmatter.blogspot.co.uk/2009/04/deleting-work-items-in-tfs-ui.html</a>. But no luck with it so far.</p>
  
  <p>First tried the following command:</p>
  
  <p><code>witadmin destroywi /collection:"https://&lt;&lt;my TFS collection&gt;&gt;" /id:1223</code></p>
  
  <p>It returned <code>Unable to destroy work item(s) 1223. TF237090: Does not exist or access is denied.</code></p>
  
  <p>Unfortunately I can't download the "Delete Work Item" utility mentioned in the article due to work's internet restrictions as it's on Skydrive. Also tried the "TEK workitem" extension (mentioned in a comment at the bottom) but this won't let me either as I'm not a Project Collection Administrator.</p>
  
  <p>Am I doomed to be stuck with this work item forever or is there any other way?</p>