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## Screenshot

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## About

*Stack Exchange Deleted Question Viewer* is a user script which allows any users with at least 500 reputation to see most deleted posts, if they have a link to them. If you have a link to a question, you will only be able to see the question, none of the answers. If you have a link to a specific answer, you will be able to see the question and that answer (though it'll take a second to load).

This will fail for locked questions, but should work for all others. It will display the post's title, content, vote counts and comments If the post has been edited at least once, it will also display the author and editor.

You can try this out with [a deleted question and answer of mine on meta.stackoverflow.com][example], then consider taking a look at the [Popular Deleted Questions list][popular] on meta.

This script relies on certain bugs and design features that are likely to be changed at some point. I'll accommodate these changes if it's possible, but it may not be.

### License

Released under the [MIT Open Source License][mit].

### Installation

[**Click here**][install] to install *Stack Exchange Deleted Question Viewer*.

### Platforms

- Google Chrome
- Mozilla Firefox + [Greasemonkey][gm]

## Contact

*Stack Exchange Deleted Question Viewer* was written me, Jeremy Banks. You can just leave feedback in the comments, but if you would like to email me my address is in my profile.

## Code

*Stack Exchange Deleted Question Viewer* was written in [CoffeeScript](http://coffeescript.org/). The source file is available [here][source].

  [screenshot]: https://i.sstatic.net/CiQeY.png
  [example]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/q/111998
  [popular]: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/73455/popular-deleted-questions-list
  [mit]: http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php
  [install]: https://raw.github.com/gist/1361876/efc529022a8d93f7511466cb3f11c7e5b722591f/deleted.user.js
  [source]: https://raw.github.com/gist/1361876/f5160e5a9716e517c59b30fa31962404fbec7f08/deleted.user.coffee
  [gm]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/greasemonkey/

## Oh, and...

...if any Stack Exchange folks would prefer that this be deleted, I won't object.