@darijgrinberg When I flagged that question for merging, I got the response "flag again if the question is undeleted". Did you have some message from the handling moderator on your flag?
apparently that's the comment on my first merge request
merge -> dup please – darij grinberg Dec 10 '19 at 3:47 declined - post was already deleted still, merge -> dupe target. there are good answers here. – darij grinberg 14 hours ago pending