In plain English
This means the account is in a waiting stage, not fully gone yet. A request to remove it has been made, but the final removal has not happened.
In context
Here, "Pending deletion" reports that the account is in the waiting state after a deletion request and before final removal.
- Situation
- Notification, privacy, data-export, and account-deletion settings
- What it communicates
- reports the account state after a deletion request
Meaning limits
By itself, this status does not say when final removal will happen.
Examples
“After the owner requested removal, the old account was pending deletion rather than fully deleted.”
“Following last week's request to remove them, two duplicate accounts remained pending deletion.”