Question: Delete questions if you like all but leave a damn trace !!!

It's becoming increasingly common for questions to be deleted, the most frequently evoked argument being that they duplicate earlier questions.
Usually it's the author of the question who complains, in this case it's the one who provided an answer.

I've always found this self-given freedom on the part of moderators somewhat inappropriate, especially given that these deletions are done on the sly, without even the courage to be explicitly claimed by their authors.

Couldn't these latter take the time to leave a message indicating what they've just done (and why) and where the deleted question, and any exchanges associated with it, can be found?
Otherwise, this attitude is more akin to contempt and censorship than to real management of this blog.

A few years ago, when I came to this site, these deletions were the exception and I can only deplore the fact that they have become commonplace.
They say that life is better elsewhere, I don't know, but what I do know is that I've never come across this on any Scilab, R, SageMath or OpenTurns user's blog.

Anyway, here's the reply I sent to @salim-barzani :  Hirota_derivative_KdV_equation.mw