Why do 410 pages show as errors in Google Webmaster Tools?

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Published on 2012-12-05T03:48:05Z Indexed on 2012/12/05 5:33 UTC
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To remove links from our site, we return a 410 code on on the links we want removed, and shows The page you requested was removed..

In Webmaster Tools, I see all the 410 pages in Crawl Errors / Not Found.

I'm worried that because they appear in Crawl Errors that they could be negatively affecting SEO rankings. Is that the case, and if so, should I change the return codes from 410 to something else?

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