Next week we will remove the following methods without deprecation: - Article::delete() - Article::confirmDelete() - ImagePage::delete()
This is part of an ongoing refactoring of deletion-related code. The methods above are currently bloated: beyond deleting an article, they're responsible for building the UI, checking permissions, handling errors etc. The relevant UI-related code is being moved to DeleteAction, so use that if you need to do something with the UI. Maintaining BC in the old methods is challenging, due to how many things this code does, and how much code is being moved around. According to codesearch, these methods are only used by a test in WikibaseLexeme (which has been temporarily disabled). Thus, we decided to remove them without deprecation after this week's train.
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