I’ll restate my problem.
I always give proper thought before deleting. I try to do the right thing. (I suggest you try moderating a difficult site and you will see what I mean.)
But maybe a week or 2 weeks after the deletion, the poster will complain and ask me for my reasons.
At that stage I have forgotten the wording of the post and therefore the reason I deleted it.
I suppose I could keep my own manual archive of all deletions.
Or I could get some memory lessons.
But in the end, it seems to me to be a fairly simple matter for someone more skilled than I to produce a solution.
OTH, if nobody out there has this problem then forget it.
Thanks for your comment.
Thanks for the suggestion.
But I really do not want to search through all the spam I get to locate a few deleted comments.
What I really need is a plugin which supports the same sort of archiving you describe but when comments are marked “delete”.
Any more thoughts?
TIA