diff --git a/packages/webui/src/public/workflows.js b/packages/webui/src/public/workflows.js
index 04cf3df1d..d9fb0e295 100644
--- a/packages/webui/src/public/workflows.js
+++ b/packages/webui/src/public/workflows.js
@@ -668,7 +668,8 @@
       location.hash = `${orgHash(org)}/workflows`;
     } catch (error) {
       d.busy = false; d.confirm = false;
-      d.status = error.code === 'revision-conflict' ? 'Not deleted: the organization file changed this workflow since the page read it. Discard to load the current version.' : `Not deleted: ${error.message}`;
+      // Recheck B: Discard shows only with a pending change; without one the next read draws the current version.
+      d.status = error.code === 'revision-conflict' ? `Not deleted: the organization file changed this workflow since the page read it. ${changed(d) ? 'Discard to load the current version.' : 'The page shows the current version at its next read.'}` : `Not deleted: ${error.message}`;
       say(d.status);
       paint('wfg-delete');
     }
@@ -706,7 +707,7 @@
     const refused = stepRefusal(st, e.i + 1);
     if (refused) return why(form, e, refused);
     if (e.mode === 'add') d.flow.steps.splice(e.i, 0, st); else d.flow.steps[e.i] = st;
-    d.edit = null;
+    d.edit = null; d.status = '';
     select(e.i + 1);
     say(`${e.mode === 'add' ? 'Added' : 'Changed'} step ${e.i + 1}. Not saved yet.`);
     paint('wfg-save');
diff --git a/packages/webui/tests/workflows-browser.test.mjs b/packages/webui/tests/workflows-browser.test.mjs
index 8c211cfd9..9b7ea502a 100644
--- a/packages/webui/tests/workflows-browser.test.mjs
+++ b/packages/webui/tests/workflows-browser.test.mjs
@@ -612,6 +612,7 @@ test('Save with a step form holding edits not applied refuses in words and sends
   assert.equal(await b.evaluate(`document.querySelector('[data-wfg-form] input[name="title"]')?.value`), 'Ship the release', 'the typed title stays');
   await b.evaluate(press('[data-wfg-apply]'));
   await wait(`${titles}[0] === 'Ship the release'`, 'applied');
+  assert.equal(await b.evaluate(`document.querySelector('[data-wfg-status]')`), null, 'Apply clears the refusal');
   await b.evaluate(press('[data-wfg-save]'));
   await wait(`/Saved change\\./.test(${text('[data-wfg-status]')})`, 'saved');
   assert.equal(st.writes.length, 1);
@@ -638,6 +639,17 @@ test('Delete on a view another writer has changed is refused, not deleted over',
   assert.equal(st.writes[0].args.workflow, null);
   assert.equal(st.docs.acme.projects.site.workflows.change.description, 'Changed elsewhere.', 'the newer workflow is still in the file');
   assert.ok(await b.evaluate(`${boxes}.length === 1 && !!document.querySelector('[data-wfg-unsaved]')`), 'the pending change stays');
+  // With no pending change there is no Discard, so the refusal does not point at one.
+  await b.evaluate(press('[data-wfg-discard]'));
+  await wait(`${boxes}.length === 2 && !document.querySelector('[data-wfg-unsaved]')`, 'discarded');
+  await b.evaluate(press('[data-wfg-delete]'));
+  await wait(`document.querySelector('[data-wfg-delete-yes]')`, 'confirm again');
+  st.change('acme', doc => { doc.projects.site.workflows.change.description = 'Changed again.'; });
+  await b.evaluate(press('[data-wfg-delete-yes]'));
+  await wait(`/^Not deleted/.test(${text('[data-wfg-status]')})`, 'second delete refused');
+  assert.equal(await b.evaluate(text('[data-wfg-status]')), 'Not deleted: the organization file changed this workflow since the page read it. The page shows the current version at its next read.');
+  assert.equal(await b.evaluate(`document.querySelector('[data-wfg-discard]')`), null);
+  assert.equal(st.docs.acme.projects.site.workflows.change.description, 'Changed again.');
 });
 
 test('a failed read says a pending change is kept, and it comes back when the read works', { timeout: 60000 }, async t => {