Board Thread:New Features/@comment-26339491-20191016152503/@comment-27345308-20191219062259

Mira Laime wrote: Threads where the deletion can be undone (when you use "remove" option) will be migrated, so that you can still restore them within Discussions, should you choose to. I'm not sure when you'd ever use  to delete a thread, though. Can you clarify? Forum, being the ugly mess of code that it is, doesn't actually allow  on thread pages last time I checked. What it does allow is deletion of thread pages via API, which is what scripts such as AjaxThreadDelete or WHAM use. This natural MediaWiki way of thread deletion provides several advantages to other methods (quasi-removal and quasi-deletion), such as: That said, are quasi-deleted threads also going to get migrated to Discussions?
 * Thread page contents cannot be read by normal users after being deleted
 * Links on the deleted thread page are not accounted for in WantedPages, files in the deleted thread page are accounted for in UnusedFiles, and it doesn't mess up maintenance reports in general
 * The API for deleting threads the natural way is documented (it's the same API for deleting any other page).