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Deleted pages should be served as HTTP 404 instead of HTTP 200
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The "this page has been deleted" message should be served as HTTP 404 (note: not HTTP 410, as in WONTFIXed bug T14345: Server should return a 410 HTTP status code for deleted pages, which implies that the resource will never come back - that is not necessarily true for deleted pages).

Related: the 2014 discussion 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.

Version: 1.23.0
Severity: minor

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Scott created this task.Jan 6 2014, 6:14 PM
Scott added a comment.Jan 9 2014, 3:28 PM

Hi Andre, I've changed the title again as the pages aren't currently being served as 410. :)

Aklapper added a comment.Jan 9 2014, 3:57 PM

Ah, thanks! I misread.

duplicatebug added a comment.Jan 12 2014, 10:29 AM

Are you talking about user pages? That was changed to always return HTTP 200 (excepted unknown and blocked users) to allow use of the url as OpenID.

Scott added a comment.Jan 14 2014, 10:19 AM

I wasn't aware of that change - good to know - but no, mainspace (and presumably other namespace) pages.

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