Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Started/@comment-24524462-20160212081223/@comment-24524462-20160215052815

OK, that makes sense. Thank you very much.

I gave that a try, and I can see deleted items from specifc users that way. Users who, by the way, are already globally blocked. But here is the problem I have that I can't figure out how to solve.

Take this blocked user, for example: http://bigbusiness.wikia.com/wiki/Special:DeletedContributions/Dannycrain  He has only three contributions, all three of which were posted on Jun 20, 2014. All three were deleted as spam by Jr_Mime on Jul 10, 2014. At least, they appear deleted me (I'm a newbie admin) ... if I click on the only revision, I get a page showing the deleted content, with an undelete option. Certainly seems deleted to me.

So ... these three posts were deleted about a year and a half ago. But when I do a search on one of the words in the title of these deleted posts ... "Passport", for example, the search is still finding them -- the second item at the top of the second page of search results is one of "Dannycrain's" spam posts.

Why, a year and a half after these were deleted, do they still show up in search results? It seems like any caching mechanism for search indexes would have been regenerated ages ago ...

Is there something I can do as an admin to force a re-index of the search terms? Or is this something that will need to be addressed by wikia?

Thanks again.