Topic: How to handle a post with a deleted parent?

I have a question that I don't see covered in the post relationships help article: when a post has a deleted parent, what should I do in terms of cleanup? Leave the linkage for posterity? Remove the parent-child relationship? Flag the surviving post for site staff to handle?

The specifics: a post with a deleted parent. It's hard to tell why the parent got deleted but the child survived, as a normal user. I see in the "takedown notice" that FoxnRoll requested "I don't feel comfortable having my art on this website anymore." The deleted parent featured FoxnRoll's character Patty, but the surviving metadata says that anormaluser created the deleted art, which doesn't quite match the request.

So, what's to be done?

Hm they seem to be a self-uploading artist according to post #3153630
Why don't you DMail them and ask if that's intentional or not?

Character owners can request removal of art too, but artists can request for their own removed art to be reinstated, which appears to have happened here. Artists usually take priority over character owners in terms of whether their art gets to stay up.

confretka said:
I have a question that I don't see covered in the post relationships help article: when a post has a deleted parent, what should I do in terms of cleanup? Leave the linkage for posterity? Remove the parent-child relationship? Flag the surviving post for site staff to handle?
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So, what's to be done?

It's best to just leave it alone. There's a variety of reasons why a child post may have a deleted parent. One common reason is because the child is a superior version of the first. Other times, they're linked in some way, but one had to be deleted for some reason. While Users may not have a use for the parent-child relationship, staff still does. Removing it just makes things harder for us if we need to come back and deal with the posts in some way.