Oliver Brown wrote:
i have come across blanked articles. articles should be deleted, or marked for deletion. they should never be blanked.
I disagree. At the heart of Wikipedia is 'you can edit this page right now'.
Sometimes a page has no useful content at all. The best thing to use would be history-preserving delete, which should be available to all users (including anonymous ones). Until that comes, blanking is the right thing to do.
-M-