mdd4696@gmail.com wrote:
I'm generating a few lists of articles on the Toolserver, and I can't seem to figure out how to detect if an article has been deleted. I don't want to include those articles in my lists. Is there an easy way detect this?
This depends on what you're trying to detect, actually.
If a page has been deleted, it simply does not appear in the page table.
If you wish to distinguish between "has been deleted" and "never existed at all", then you must check the archive table (probably not available on toolserver) or the deletion log in the logging table (not necessarily as accurate due to renamings or age).
-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)