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The following changes are live now:

• Deleted questions will be visible to their authors, regardless of those authors' reputation. They won't be linked to anywhere^† that they're not already linked, but if someone knows where to find their question and it's been deleted, they should always be able to view it.

• Delete-voting within two days of closing is disabled on questions scoring -2 or above, regardless of the voter's reputation.

• Automatic deletion of closed, abandoned questions for questions meeting the following criteria:

  • Closed more than 9 days ago
  • Not closed as a duplicate
  • Score <= 0
  • Not locked
  • No answers with a score > 0
  • No accepted answer
  • No pending reopen votes
  • No edits in the past 9 days

For recent examples of the sorts of questions that will be deleted, you can view results from SEDE.

^† Linking from the profile was added in June 2013, under some conditions.

The following changes are live now:

• Deleted questions will be visible to their authors, regardless of those authors' reputation. They won't be linked to anywhere^† that they're not already linked, but if someone knows where to find their question and it's been deleted, they should always be able to view it.

• Delete-voting within two days of closing is disabled on questions scoring -2 or above, regardless of the voter's reputation.

• Automatic deletion of closed, abandoned questions for questions meeting the following criteria:

  • Closed more than 9 days ago
  • Not closed as a duplicate
  • Score <= 0
  • Not locked
  • No answers with a score > 0
  • No accepted answer
  • No pending reopen votes
  • No edits in the past 9 days

For recent examples of the sorts of questions that will be deleted, you can view results from SEDE.

^† Linking from the profile was added in June 2013, under some conditions.

The following changes are live now:

• Deleted questions will be visible to their authors, regardless of those authors' reputation. They won't be linked to anywhere^† that they're not already linked, but if someone knows where to find their question and it's been deleted, they should always be able to view it.

• Delete-voting within two days of closing is disabled on questions scoring -2 or above, regardless of the voter's reputation.

• Automatic deletion of closed, abandoned questions for questions meeting the following criteria:

  • Closed more than 9 days ago
  • Not closed as a duplicate
  • Score <= 0
  • Not locked
  • No answers with a score > 0
  • No accepted answer
  • No pending reopen votes
  • No edits in the past 9 days

For recent examples of the sorts of questions that will be deleted, you can view results from SEDE.

^† Linking from the profile was added in June 2013, under some conditions.

The following changes are live now:

• Deleted questions will be visible to their authors, regardless of those authors' reputation. They won't be linked to anywhere^† that they're not already linked, but if someone knows where to find their question and it's been deleted, they should always be able to view it.

• Delete-voting within two days of closing is disabled on questions scoring -2 or above, regardless of the voter's reputation.

• Automatic deletion of closed, abandoned questions for questions meeting the following criteria:

  • Closed more than 9 days ago
  • Not closed as a duplicate
  • Score <= 0
  • Not locked
  • No answers with a score > 0
  • No accepted answer
  • No pending reopen votes
  • No edits in the past 9 days

For recent examples of the sorts of questions that will be deleted, you can view results from SEDE.

^† Linking from the profile was added in June 2013, under some conditions.

The following changes are live now:

• Deleted questions will be visible to their authors, regardless of those authors' reputation. They won't be linked to anywhere^† that they're not already linked, but if someone knows where to find their question and it's been deleted, they should always be able to view it.

• Delete-voting within two days of closing is disabled on questions scoring -2 or above, regardless of the voter's reputation.

• Automatic deletion of closed, abandoned questions for questions meeting the following criteria:

  • Closed more than 9 days ago
  • Not closed as a duplicate
  • Score <= 0
  • Not locked
  • No answers with a score > 0
  • No accepted answer
  • No pending reopen votes
  • No edits in the past 9 days

For recent examples of the sorts of questions that will be deleted, you can view results from SEDE.

^† Linking from the profile was added in June 2013, under some conditions.

The following changes are live now:

• Deleted questions will be visible to their authors, regardless of those authors' reputation. They won't be linked to anywhere^† that they're not already linked, but if someone knows where to find their question and it's been deleted, they should always be able to view it.

• Delete-voting within two days of closing is disabled on questions scoring -2 or above, regardless of the voter's reputation.

• Automatic deletion of closed, abandoned questions for questions meeting the following criteria:

  • Closed more than 9 days ago
  • Not closed as a duplicate
  • Score <= 0
  • Not locked
  • No answers with a score > 0
  • No accepted answer
  • No pending reopen votes
  • No edits in the past 9 days

For recent examples of the sorts of questions that will be deleted, you can view results from SEDE.

^† Linking from the profile was added in June 2013, under some conditions.