Do not match with deleted items

[wetneb]

Looking for a Qid that was deleted should not return any matches.

[thadguidry]

What if some folks do "QA" or Quality Assurance, and have a list in Column 1 of VERIFY THESE ARE DELETED before processing Column 2 ? This comes into that thing we talked about called "modes" of reconciling. Our UI interface really needs a refresh !!! And extensions could offer up other modes of reconciling that control the matching behavior on the backend.

Some tools that I use in my day job do reconcile for provenance sake to match against deleted items, but that process is very much a QA process and probably not needed much in Wikidata as a "recon" operation within OpenRefine...I'd imagine that those users have other tools, api usage, etc. to perform that need. So I recant, and agree that the "recon" operation of looking at an "active" Qid should not return matches of an "inactive" or deleted Qid.