Getting "404" when selecting "close" on deleted question

Question

It looks like Getting 404 when closing a deleted question has resurfaced.

I don't have any screenshots, but the general steps to reproduce would appear to be:

1. Open a question.
2. Have someone else delete said question (or do it yourself from another session).
3. Click "close" below the question.

At this point, you get a red "404" error box, as shown in this screenshot borrowed from the above-linked question:

The chain of duplicates on the above-linked question ends at Users without commenting privilege can't select the “it doesn't belong here” flag reason; a “404” error box appears when they try, which is status-completed. However, the fact that I got this same error about two months later would seem to indicate either a larger issue, that the questions indeed were not duplicates, or a regression.

Either way, I believe a developer should take a look at this.

Answer 1

Fixed in next release (2013.11.12.1146). Until now we simply returned a 404 error if either the question was not found or the action was not allowed. Now you'll be getting a more descriptive error message when you run into the action not allowed scenario.