How can you know the name of the "Owned by" person when the account shown is Former user (Deleted)

Question

Is there a way to know the name of someone when the account is showing up as

Former user (Deleted)

Could an Admin know?

Is the data totally gone for good?

There is a need to change this behavior such that the name of the person should still be available through a tool tip or something.

Jack Brickey · Answer

Ah yes of course! Still the deactivate vs. delete is the preferred method of removing a user. Definitely look back at page history for clues to original ownership.

A A Ron Geister _Trundl_ · Answer

Hi @Paul Dunn hope all is well. Welcome to community.

@Jack Brickey I believe he is talking about the page owner in confluence.

if you are referring to Confluence page owner this can be updated now. Typically any time a user is no longer in the system it retains their data and will show (deactivated) after a user name is where it is present. From there a confluence admin or space admin can reassign page ownership.

Here is n article bout page ownership. 
https://community.atlassian.com/t5/Confluence-Cloud-articles/New-Assign-and-transfer-page-ownership/ba-p/2396313

if your in Jira you can query assignee in inactiveUsers() and get a list of inactive users and see how assignee looks with a user no longer present or has access.

hope this helps

Aaron

Jack Brickey · Answer

Hi @Paul Dunn , are you referring to the Assignee field? Did you check the History tab? One bit of advice is to never delete a user but rather deactivate them.