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Problem

When I visit softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/revisions/455243, I see that the answer has been deleted. However, the deletion notice doesn't contain rationale. In its stead, it merely states that a moderator deleted this. Should I attempt to cast an undeletion vote, I am informed that because a moderator has deleted the post, it cannot be undeleted.

Diagnosis

I have skimmed the relevant documentation on this at SE Meta, but it does not appear to contain anything about this situation:

  1. It gained upvotes with the timeframe that the Community bot considers acceptable.
  2. It had answers.

Consequently, I pitted the message to Google, and it located meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/335807 for me, which does discuss this topic. However, I didn't link to any URIs directly hosting executables, so it's inapplicable.

Question

Consequently, how am I to at least understand why my question was deleted?

(Lack of) Duplicates

I verified that

  1. users/deleted-questions/385519
  2. users/385519/rokejulianlockhart?tab=questions

were empty before posting this.

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I deleted it 6 months ago, but I have no idea why. Normally, when questions get deleted by a mod, it's in conjunction with a closure for an explicitly off-topic reason, but those reasons don't apply.

So I edited the title a little to avoid it looking like a resource request, cleaned up the body, and undeleted.

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  • I see many off-topic closed questions deleted. Some are very interesting and I'd like for them to stay. Could you link some discussion/rules on why deletion for closed questions is necessary? Commented May 21 at 15:30
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    @Basilevs This answer has the information you need. The short story is that some people are confused about why a question is closed. Deleting them and making them invisible doesn't give any opportunity for anyone to think that they can ask a similar question. Commented May 21 at 17:49

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