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Suggested edit hidden from mods and admins for deleted posts
If a suggested edit is made on a question that has been deleted, the suggested edit is created successfully but does not show in the suggested edits list, even to users with the Curate ability (who can see the deleted question) or to moderators or admins.
The suggested edit does show up in the notifications of the question author.
Should the suggested edit also be visible to curators, moderators, and/or admins?
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Suggested edits now show up in the list if and only if the user viewing the page can see the associated posts. That means those with the Curate ability see deleted (and undeleted) posts, while others see only edits on posts that are not deleted. This also fixes the bug where the edit "silver dot" would appear for everyone with the Edit ability even if the only pending edits are on deleted posts.
While suggested edits on deleted posts are rare, they do occasionally happen when people are trying to help others improve posts so they can be restored. A more common case, we later realized, is people deleting posts with pending suggested edits. Those used to get orphaned; now they don't.
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I think that deleted posts should not get edits suggested to because deletion implies that the post is unrecoverable. The software should not allow to suggest such an edit or in the unfortunate (but rather rare) event that a post gets deleted after a suggested edit has started but before it has finished, post a message explaining the situation and cancel the edit instead.
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