On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 5:48 PM, AGK agkwiki@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 Wikipediahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia, all users functioned as administrators, and in principle they still should.
From early on, it has been pointed out that administrators should never
develop into a special subgroup of the community but should be a part of the community like anyone else. Generally, the maintenance and administration of Wikipedia can be conducted by anyone, without the specific technical functions granted to administrators. While the tools granted to administrators are technical and do not convey authority *per se*, administrators are people that are entrusted with potentially harmful tools."