[OSM-newbies] Deleted way

[Mike]

I had been an occasional user of the OSM site but became a contributor
when I recommended the site to someone else, only to discover that a
segment of road near me had disappeared from OSM. I fixed it, got
myself a GPS unit and have been contributing for the last couple
weeks.

Today when doing a download in to JOSM, I found that the same road
segment whose disappearance prompted me to start contributing has
disappeared again.

The nodes are still present, but the way is gone, is there anyway to
find out who is deleting the way? Since the way is gone, I can not
look at it's history on the data page.

--Mike