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What are some of the questions from Stack Overflow and Programmers that have been deleted?

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This is about multiple sites and is therefore on-topic. –  Lance Roberts May 26 at 8:17
    
@Lance It's about two specific sites, not Stack Exchange as a whole, which is how that close reason is intended to be used. –  Emrakul May 26 at 8:34
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@Emrakul, yes, and therefore, it's not about just one, so it can't be migrated. Not every question on Meta SE has to apply to every single site. –  Lance Roberts May 26 at 8:35
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@Lance No, but it's still off-topic by the intent of the close reason, even if not by the letter. Would you rather I have written a custom "off topic because it is about two specific sites"? The questions also aren't intended to all be migrated. –  Emrakul May 26 at 8:36
    
@Emrakul, no, I'd rather you leave it be. It's a necessary question that will need constant updating in the future, as it has needed in the past. We don't need to purify the site to that level. –  Lance Roberts May 26 at 8:37
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@Lance I strongly disagree that this is a necessary question. Besides, and I quote: "Questions on Meta Stack Exchange should pertain to our network or software that drives it as a whole, within the guidelines defined in the help center." This doesn't. I really don't want to bother arguing this further, though. If you do not agree with the close reason's intent as written, that's your choice. –  Emrakul May 26 at 8:39
    
@Emrakul, sorry you're a hater. There's nothing worse than the deletionists deleting old good popular questions, and this is the ONLY way to preserve any of that knowledge. –  Lance Roberts May 26 at 8:41
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@Lance Even if the question is closed, you can still update and view the list. Closing isn't deletion. –  Emrakul May 26 at 8:43
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@LanceRoberts: It's not on-topic. As you realize, it would not be on topic on either MSO or M.Programmers, but the edit to make it on-topic on those sites is trivial. (Obviously: split it into two questions, one about each site, and connect them with a link. There's no reason at all for both sites to appear in a single question.) –  Ben Voigt May 29 at 14:34
    
@BenVoigt, no, anything that applies to more than one site would be on-topic. BUT I do plan on creating and moving the archive to MSO in a bit when I have a minute. Then someone can move the Programmers part and all the extreme purists will be happy again. –  Lance Roberts May 29 at 14:37
    
@LanceRoberts: Actually, the way this should be done IMO is a question about using the data explorer to find the top 20 popular deleted questions on any site, with an answer that not only explains the query, but contains ready-made links querying SO, and Programmers, and for sorting by votes and views and favorited count. –  Ben Voigt May 29 at 14:39
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@Ben DE doesn't have deleted stuff, so such a query is impossible. –  Billy Mailman May 29 at 18:07
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I have no objection to compiling a list of popular deleted questions, but this belong on each site's meta. Obviously, that is why per-site metas exist. –  Cody Gray Jun 2 at 15:54
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What is the quality control criteria for even appearing on this list? –  random Jun 10 at 0:28
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Yes, please bring them back :) –  tekknolagi Dec 5 '11 at 7:34
    
@AdamRackis -- see here: meta.stackexchange.com/q/125762/155556 –  amanaP lanaC A nalP A naM A Mar 15 '12 at 15:07
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@moguzalp - yeah, that's the rumor. Shog has mentioned many times that an archive is coming. –  Adam Rackis Mar 15 '12 at 20:16
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instead of delete, why not filter. it's ok if one doesn't want to see hundreds of old and closed questions at the top but this is not a good reason enough to delete them –  naxa Jun 30 '12 at 18:37
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So, almost 2014, where is the archive? –  Franck Dernoncourt Dec 25 '13 at 17:56
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Well, it's March 2014 – so I'm guessing that “archive” thing was more of a rumour, wasn’t it? (Whatever you do, please don’t tell me it’s not a rumour and that that to-do list is still reaching back to 2012…) –  e-sushi Mar 27 at 18:27
    
Can we at least view them in archive form? –  Wold May 7 at 6:47
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