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Greetings, everyone, I decided to sweep in a discussion of mine from the village pump. I just wanted to let you guys know that it would be more convenient if this happened.

[This task has been laid off] though I would like some insight here]

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Village_pump_(technical)/Archive_161#Per:_Special:WantedPages_%C2%A7Question/Suggestion

Macro ambiguitytape: This nhas been laid off but it's still important

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Salutations, Members of the Wikipedia Community It must be brought to attention that articles show up no matter whether they were deleted, or they weren't, nonetheless, they we're thrown in together. I don't nessicarily find this as a problem, however I find it to be like
speed bumps on the road of editing

— unknown
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Nowadays, I often find my self scrolling the list, and today I tried clicking on Iceland Sea. I was considering taking it under my wings, only to find it deleted by User:Zzyzx11, so I was unsure whether it would be a good idea. I often felt steered away from pages because of this entropy.

Now, I understand the Administrative needs of showing the deleted pages', don't get me wrong here. I shall implement my solution below, and submit what would be like a summary, except it's my solution, potentially the answer, in my opinion, to the problem.

It would be found quite harsh and unnecessary to delete the deleted pages, so why not provide a button. One that could temporarily hide the deleted pages to Auto-confirmed users and reveal the same to the administration, buearucrats, and the stewards(which Special:Statistics counts as 0, huh?), who could really use it. Why not provide a button like you'd see on your watchlist, in which sorts the desirable content out of the thickness. A button like: Hide Deleted Pages would really do the trick.

I would like to take the time to thank you for all you've done for Wikipedia. What you have, what you do, and what you'll contribute to in the future, so much contributions, I must thank you. I must also thank you in advance, for responding to me, and resolving perhaps one of the most arrogant problems of the Special Pages, at least affecting me.

Thank you, let's keep Wikipedia strong.

Sincerely, User: Zanygenius(talk page) 6:28 pm, 11 January 2018, Thursday (13 days ago) (UTC−7)"

Any thoughts on this post?

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Mattflaschen-WMF renamed this task from Categorize Recent Changes list to Option to hide deleted pages from Recent Changes.Jan 30 2018, 11:42 PM

If I understand correctly, you are asking to provide an optional button to hide deleted pages from Special:RecentChanges.

However, deleted pages are already always hidden from Recent Changes.

Probably, the issue is that you are seeing pages that were deleted after you loaded the page. I.E. a sequence of:

  1. You open Special:RecentChanges.
  2. Someone deletes a recently-created page Foo.
  3. Without refreshing, you click Foo. You see it has been deleted.

If you refresh Special:RecentChanges before clicking Foo (or click the back button from Foo, then do this), you should see it disappear.

So there is no need for a Hide Deleted Pages (or equivalent) link or button.

(The only way to potentially solve the general issue would be to update the entire result set dynamically (adding new entries, as with Live Update, does not solve this). That would likely be confusing, and we are not doing major feature work on this product currently.)

@Zanygenius - on Per: Special:WantedPages §Question/Suggestion you refer to Special:WantedPages, not to Special:RecentChanges, is it correct?

Also, I noticed that you've clarified the reason why "Iceland Sea" was deleted and started to work on the article draft in your Sandbox. If you still have any questions, you may add them here.