The user and all related content has been deleted.

I am not seeing this. Can you provide some details? Zenphoto release, maybe a link to the site.

But just a warning. Since searching uses the & for an AND operator, use in tags may be a bit problematic for people doing a search--they will have to enclose that tag in quotations.

The user and all related content has been deleted.

do you mean this:
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That has the properly encoded ampersand.

The user and all related content has been deleted.

Yes, that is correct. See: http://www.w3schools.com/HTML/html_entities.asp