[WikiEN-l] Non administrators closing deletion debates

[Anthony]

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.
>

And all admins can be trusted, but all non-admins can't be?

Fine.  Here's the thing.  You need to change [[Wikipedia:Administrators]]:

"In the very early days of Wikipedia<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia>,
all users functioned as administrators, and in principle they still should.