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Bug 59733 - Deleted pages should be served as HTTP 404 instead of HTTP 200
Deleted pages should be served as HTTP 404 instead of HTTP 200
Status: NEW
Product: MediaWiki
Classification: Unclassified
General/Unknown (Other open bugs)
1.23.0
All All
: Low minor (vote)
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Assigned To: Nobody - You can work on this!
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Reported: 2014-01-06 18:14 UTC by Scott Martin (http://enwp.org/user:scott)
Modified: 2014-01-14 10:19 UTC (History)
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Description Scott Martin (http://enwp.org/user:scott) 2014-01-06 18:14:04 UTC 
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). This would be in keeping with the "user account is not registered" message, which is served as 404.

Related: a current discussion on the English Wikipedia, at 
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 , regarding potential consequences of the "this page has been deleted" message appearing in search results for living persons.
Comment 1 Scott Martin (http://enwp.org/user:scott) 2014-01-09 15:28:37 UTC 
Hi Andre, I've changed the title again as the pages aren't currently being served as 410. :)
Comment 2 Andre Klapper 2014-01-09 15:57:23 UTC 
Ah, thanks! I misread.
Comment 3 db [inactive,noenotif] 2014-01-12 10:29:09 UTC 
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.
Comment 4 Scott Martin (http://enwp.org/user:scott) 2014-01-14 10:19:52 UTC 
I wasn't aware of that change - good to know - but no, mainspace (and presumably other namespace) pages.
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