# How to determine which question/answer was deleted?

I have noticed a loss in my reputation and I think it should be related to some user who has deleted his question with my answer, or maybe his account altogether. Are there any means to determine what was this deleted answer? I would like if possible to have its text for myself in case one asks something similar (or at least the title of the question - to avoid unsuccessful search over my past responses).

• (1) A user cannot delete their question with an upvoted answer. (2) When a user deletes their account, their votes are deleted too (which may result in a drop of other users' reputation), but their posts remain. (3) I don't see any negative changes on your reputation timeline for the last 3 days. (4) See also: Poster deletes question with valid answer Jul 20 '13 at 17:31
• @40votes Just a few minutes ago I had 9576 on the meta tab and 9526 on the main tab (now I have 9526 on two). And I remember to have 9556 yesterday. Jul 20 '13 at 17:36
– robjohn Mod
Jul 20 '13 at 17:45
• @robjohn It says "page not found"... Jul 20 '13 at 17:47
• @O.L.: you need 10K rep to see deleted questions. It is titled "Really needed some higher level maths"
– robjohn Mod
Jul 20 '13 at 17:48
• Enter id = 423004 in this query to get the question and all answers. Jul 20 '13 at 17:51
• @40votes Thanks! So is it deleted or made wiki? Jul 20 '13 at 18:00
• @O.L. The wiki mode did not make much difference here; you keep the points from upvotes that were given before the conversion to wiki. What happened is that the question got closed, and since it was closed and negatively scored, 20K users could vote to delete it at once. See Google cache. Jul 20 '13 at 18:03
• If you have enough points, you can vote to undelete the question. Jul 21 '13 at 0:17
• @GerryMyerson Thank you, that answer is not particularly precious for me - but initially I didn't even know what has disappeared. Jul 21 '13 at 9:42

Also, a Google search for title or fragment of the post with the parameter site:math.stackexchange.com will usually lead to the cached version of the post.
If it's your question that gets deleted, finding it is easy: go to your user profile -> questions -> deleted recent questions at the bottom. You don't need 10K to see your own deleted questions.