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    Note that recently, 10k users gained the ability to use deleted:1 in search to find their own deleted posts. (Nobody else's.) So this is really a request to drop the privilege level for that ability from 10k to 1, not from ♦ to 1. Commented Dec 16, 2015 at 3:50
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    Go to the "top bar" > "inbox" > "see all inbox items" and look for notifications on your deleted posts. Commented Jun 16, 2016 at 18:49
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    Yup. If a new and inexperienced user can't find their question — perhaps one to which I left a comment explaining their mistake, — what is more likely? That they will search around and ask on the proper Meta site or Chat as to why their question was deleted? Or that they will go somewhere else, or even ask it again? Do we want to chase away those who ask bad questions, or do we want to help improve the level of knowledge for the many? The obscurity of deleted questions seems rather askew and cliquish to me — but, hey, at least I've never paid a cent to use this website. Commented Apr 6, 2017 at 5:09
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    Pleeeeeeeeeease let people know they some of their user-submitted content is deleted, so at least they can save it elsewhere / export it / bookmark the link, etc. Currently there is no notification, and we can sometimes lose content for which we spent time on it (maybe bad content for a downvoter, but not necessarily bad in general). Commented Mar 20, 2018 at 11:53
  • Why do you want to see them? It's annoying to see your low-quality heavily down-voted questions again! Commented Mar 21, 2021 at 10:47
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    We've been thinking about this for a while and we've seen the number of posts on MSO in particular by people struggling to understand why they're question banned because they can't find their deleted questions and we feel like the work created for moderators and meta users in helping these people identify their deleted content that may be causing the q-bans is more than the work that may be created by the deleted posts being visible. That said, we don't want to overdo it, so we're going to stick to the "recently deleted posts" pages but remove the 60 day max. Commented Dec 16, 2021 at 19:27
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    @Catija Changing that sounds great! At the same time, can we get the the URL routes changed such that there's a path to each of the recently deleted questions/answers pages which uses "/current", so a generic link can be used in messages to the user? For example, I can post a link here which works for anyone to get to their own answers tab in their profile here on MSE, but I don't think there's a way to do that for the user's recently deleted pages (or at least none of the permutations I've tired work; e.g. this). Commented Dec 17, 2021 at 1:01
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    @Makyen I'll add that to the request! Commented Dec 17, 2021 at 1:15
  • @Catija any news on this? I've been looking for a deleted question of mine and can't find it anywhere. Well, except in the notifications in the Inbox, as commented by user clickbait. (and a saved URL I luckily had). Generally, handling deletions is bad (as in many other websites). First: the reason. Without knowing what you have done bad, there can't be improvement. Commented Mar 28 at 9:38
  • @DavidBalažic Not sure what you mean - this was completely fixed quite a while ago - though it's easy to miss the answer - meta.stackexchange.com/a/374184/284336 Commented Mar 28 at 19:39
  • @Catija are those links present in the user profile? Or somewhere else? Commented Mar 28 at 22:23
  • @DavidBalažic The pages are available in the same places they had been thanks to a redirect. Commented Mar 30 at 15:56
  • @Catija it says "deleted recent questions" and "deleted recent answers" links on the questions and answers tabs (at the bottom of the tab) in your user profile But I can't find them, e.g. on stackoverflow.com/users/822870 (my profile). Misunderstanding? Commented Apr 1 at 10:50
  • @Catija and two seconds after posting the previous comment, I find them. Feel stupid. Sorry for confusion. Commented Apr 1 at 10:52