Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-9605025-20200825213015/@comment-34888194-20200825232520

An example from #4 is this.

You can see this by going to Special:Log/delete where you see the URL of the content page itself is deleted. And it's not only in Board threads, but also in message wall threads. Note: You have to go to the content page itself only in order to see this deletion message.

And yes, you're correct for the #3. This type of deletion only prevents viewers from seeing the thread, but messages and history still contain in the thread history. See Message Wall#Closing_and_deleting_Threads.


 * 1) 1 is caused by the content page deletion of the main thread (the thread before replies) with replies, but only the main thread is deleted, and because replies aren't really deleted, it ended up leads nowhere. Therefore, it's one of the reasons why Forum is causing problems and have to be retired.


 * 1) 2 can be said the same thing as #1.

Edit: If you are going to delete threads, then I strongly advise you to use AjaxThreadDelete. Not only does it delete the content page of the thread, but the content pages of the replies are deleted as well. This deletes the history of the thread (obviously), and prevents unnecessarily @comment replies in your wiki.

Note: Once the content page thread has been deleted, it cannot be restored.