[WikiEN-l] Non administrators closing deletion debates

[Gregory Maxwell]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 5:48 PM, AGK <agkwiki at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Brief comment:
>
> The main justification for having restrictions on non-administrators closing
> deletion discussions is that discussion closers are expected to be trusted
> to close without needing his or her closures double- and cross-checked.

There are certainly plenty of cases where the closer doesn't need to
be trusted… things like landslide keeps which no one else bothered to
speedy close.  Effectively the close in those cases are purely
procedural ones which require do not require special trusted
judgement.

My own thought is that if no one cares, no one cares.  Perhaps it's
not something that should be generally encouraged, but if someone
disagrees they could simply unclose it and leave it to an appointed
administrator to deal with it.