[OSM-newbies] Information about deleted items

[Richard Weait]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:16 AM, doug brown <dougcb68 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have spent several tens of hours digitizing the location of shrimp ponds
> near my home in Mexico using JOSM and BING Images.  Recently I opened Open
> Street Map to find that all of these features have been deleted.  This leads
> me to pose two questions:
>
> 1) How can I find out who delete these features so that I can inquire as to
> why they took this action?  and,
> 2) How can I retrieve these data which I need for purposes of my own, even
> if it is determined that they are not appropriate for OSM?

Provide us with a link to the area?