diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MatchQueryBuilder.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MatchQueryBuilder.java
index dc2054eda47..32d0fbbb37e 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MatchQueryBuilder.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MatchQueryBuilder.java
@@ -305,15 +305,6 @@ public class MatchQueryBuilder extends AbstractQueryBuilder<MatchQueryBuilder> {
         return this.fuzzyTranspositions;
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Sets whether format based failures will be ignored.
-     * @deprecated use #lenient() instead
-     */
-    @Deprecated
-    public MatchQueryBuilder setLenient(boolean lenient) {
-        return lenient(lenient);
-    }
-
     /**
      * Sets whether format based failures will be ignored.
      */
diff --git a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.java b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.java
index bdd11203b45..6f87ac0fda7 100644
--- a/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.java
+++ b/server/src/main/java/org/elasticsearch/index/query/MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.java
@@ -752,21 +752,6 @@ public class MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder extends AbstractQueryBuilder<MoreLikeThisQ
         return failOnUnsupportedField;
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Converts an array of String ids to and Item[].
-     * @param ids the ids to convert
-     * @return the new items array
-     * @deprecated construct the items array externally and use it in the constructor / setter
-     */
-    @Deprecated
-    public static Item[] ids(String... ids) {
-        Item[] items = new Item[ids.length];
-        for (int i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
-            items[i] = new Item(null, null, ids[i]);
-        }
-        return items;
-    }
-
     @Override
     protected void doXContent(XContentBuilder builder, Params params) throws IOException {
         builder.startObject(NAME);
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/morelikethis/MoreLikeThisIT.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/morelikethis/MoreLikeThisIT.java
index b8430db346e..62684f81164 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/morelikethis/MoreLikeThisIT.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/search/morelikethis/MoreLikeThisIT.java
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ import static org.elasticsearch.client.Requests.refreshRequest;
 import static org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.IndexMetaData.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_REPLICAS;
 import static org.elasticsearch.cluster.metadata.IndexMetaData.SETTING_NUMBER_OF_SHARDS;
 import static org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory.jsonBuilder;
-import static org.elasticsearch.index.query.MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.ids;
 import static org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders.moreLikeThisQuery;
 import static org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders.termQuery;
 import static org.elasticsearch.test.hamcrest.ElasticsearchAssertions.assertAcked;
@@ -452,7 +451,8 @@ public class MoreLikeThisIT extends ESIntegTestCase {
         indexRandom(true, builders);
 
         logger.info("Running MoreLikeThis");
-        MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder queryBuilder = QueryBuilders.moreLikeThisQuery(new String[] {"text"}, null, ids("1")).include(true)
+        Item[] items = new Item[] { new Item(null, null, "1")};
+        MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder queryBuilder = QueryBuilders.moreLikeThisQuery(new String[] {"text"}, null, items).include(true)
                 .minTermFreq(1).minDocFreq(1);
         SearchResponse mltResponse = client().prepareSearch().setTypes("type1").setQuery(queryBuilder).get();
         assertHitCount(mltResponse, 3L);
diff --git a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/validate/SimpleValidateQueryIT.java b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/validate/SimpleValidateQueryIT.java
index 04233970534..d9f25a369d6 100644
--- a/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/validate/SimpleValidateQueryIT.java
+++ b/server/src/test/java/org/elasticsearch/validate/SimpleValidateQueryIT.java
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ import org.elasticsearch.common.settings.Settings;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.unit.Fuzziness;
 import org.elasticsearch.common.xcontent.XContentFactory;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.IndexNotFoundException;
-import org.elasticsearch.index.query.MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder;
+import org.elasticsearch.index.query.MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.Item;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilder;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.query.QueryBuilders;
 import org.elasticsearch.index.query.TermsQueryBuilder;
@@ -224,7 +224,8 @@ public class SimpleValidateQueryIT extends ESIntegTestCase {
                 containsString("(field:jumps)^0.75"), true);
 
         // more like this queries
-        assertExplanation(QueryBuilders.moreLikeThisQuery(new String[] { "field" }, null, MoreLikeThisQueryBuilder.ids("1"))
+        Item[] items = new Item[] { new Item(null, null, "1")};
+        assertExplanation(QueryBuilders.moreLikeThisQuery(new String[] { "field" }, null, items)
                         .include(true).minTermFreq(1).minDocFreq(1).maxQueryTerms(2),
                 containsString("field:huge field:pidgin"), true);
         assertExplanation(QueryBuilders.moreLikeThisQuery(new String[] { "field" }, new String[] {"the huge pidgin"}, null)