The "this page has been deleted" message should be served as HTTP 404 (note: not HTTP 410, as in WONTFIXed bug 12345, which implies that the resource will never come back - that is not necessarily true for deleted pages).
Related: the 2014 discussion [[https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wikipedia:Biographies_of_living_persons/Noticeboard&oldid=589460695#Does_the_statement_.22A_page_with_this_title_has_previously_been_deleted.22_create_a_BLP_problem.3F|Wikipedia:Biographies of living persons/Noticeboard#Does the statement "A page with this title has previously been deleted" create a BLP problem?]], regarding potential consequences of the "this page has been deleted" message appearing in search results for living persons.
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