2009/1/8 Scientia Potentia est bibliomaniac_15@yahoo.com:
Agreed. This is an absolute travesty.
Questionable. What deleted content wikipedia admins can hand over has always been something of a grey area. Deleted stuff that the author wants is fairly widely accepted to be okey but other areas left clear. Admins using the ability to see deleted material out of curiosity certianly happens a fair bit and not unknown for admins to comment in a manner informed by the information. Dirrect copy any paste however is unusual however it does happen. Saw it happen today in fact (okey so that was a completely harmless issue related to so interface stuff).
While I would oppose it that is mostly because it doesn't look right rather than my being able to find an armored plated policy reason as to why that is the case.