https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=26122

--- Comment #16 from Roan Kattouw <roan.katt...@gmail.com> 2010-12-01 19:31:22 
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(In reply to comment #15)
> There may be multiple past page IDs that have belonged to a given title. In
> fact, the same deleted page ID may be associated with multiple past titles, if
> it's had individual revisions deleted while it's been in the system if it's
> been renamed over time.
> 
> So depending on exactly what sort of request you're pulling, it might or might
> not be appropriate or straightforward to pass back a page ID from
> archive.ar_page_id.
> 
Given these considerations, deleted page IDs are utterly useless AFAICT. If you
have a use case other than "I want to save 20 bytes of bandwidth by not using
titles", I'd love to hear it.

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