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diff --git a/doc/bugs/discussion_removal.mdwn b/doc/bugs/discussion_removal.mdwn
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@@ -3,3 +3,14 @@ to notice that the discussion page has gone away, and does not update the
 link to it in the action bar.
 
 > Reprocued with 2.5 --[[Joey]]
 link to it in the action bar.
 
 > Reprocued with 2.5 --[[Joey]]

+
+Looks to me like loadindex is populating %destsources with information
+that the old discussion page exists, which isn't invalidated when ikiwiki
+discovers that the page is gone. This leaves dangling links whenever *any*
+page is deleted, not just a discussion page. --Ethan
+
+Here's a patch that trawls through %destsources deleting pages when they
+are found to be deleted. It's a little inelegant, but it's simple and it 
+works. --Ethan
+
+Thankyou for the [[patch]]! [[Done]]. --[[Joey]]