Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5907266-20160128170738/@comment-168424-20160201184610

Dessamator wrote: Fandyllic wrote: It's odd that removed threads can still be seen by link. Not really, only  staff can fully delete anything from a wiki by deleting the revision and cleaning it from the hdd. Think of it as someone blanking a page (e.g. talk page), the history will remain.

Delete has a different meaning in mediawiki, it is more "like hide from general view",  otherwise it would be impossible to undelete anything.

Off topic, but deleted pages don't have viewable history by non-admins, nor can their content be seen without undelete access. I could see the removed thread's contents and I'm not an admin.