Stelio made a post on how to handle the deletion of items across Sitecore databases. And I remembered that I wrote code for this situation in another way.
The way that I’ve approached this is to extend the Item Delete event so I can publish deleted item by publishing the parent item.
Basically, I detect the parent of the item that is currently deleted by an editor, and I publish that parent item on each target database that we have on our Sitecore installation.
The code, with comments for this here:
And the config changes needed:
