Bulk Retire older version KB articles

[sbeginner]

Hi All,

In my instance I have multiple duplicate KB articles with same number. This happened because the current version was checked out and then published and hence two copies were created with same number. 

Now I have to:

1. Identify all duplicate knowledge articles

2. Change status to 'retire' of the older versions.

Please help on this.

[RaghavSh]

Are these articles created after plugin was enabled? can you see the versions in the related list of these articles?

[sbeginner]

@RaghavSh 

[RaghavSh]

is this happening for newly created articles? There could be an issue with number maintenance at some point of time in your instance or these could be imported articles.