Fix requesting sparse articles in gnus

* lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el (gnus-request-article-this-buffer): Delete the
sparse article number from the list, not its id.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el b/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
index a4ff840f755..9b91f9f85e7 100644
--- a/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
+++ b/lisp/gnus/gnus-art.el
@@ -6993,10 +6993,10 @@ If given a prefix, show the hidden text instead."
                    ((memq article gnus-newsgroup-sparse)
                     ;; This is a sparse gap article.
                     (setq do-update-line article)
-                    (setq article (mail-header-id header))
-                    (setq sparse-header (gnus-read-header article))
                     (setq gnus-newsgroup-sparse
-                          (delq article gnus-newsgroup-sparse)))
+                          (delq article gnus-newsgroup-sparse))
+                    (setq article (mail-header-id header))
+                    (setq sparse-header (gnus-read-header article)))
                    ((vectorp header)
                     ;; It's a real article.
                     (setq article (mail-header-id header)))