Anthony DiPierro wrote:
A script to allow users to view deleted pages has already been created. It is at http://download2.wikimedia.org/tools/view_deleted_article.
I have not commented on this issue since that script was created, so the suggestion that I said you couldn't use it is not true. I don't see what this has to do with the board. All sysops can see deleted articles, and the board certainly doesn't go round approving all sysop applications. I'm getting fed up of everything people don't like being blamed on a board decision when no such decision was ever made. You get to see deleted articles by being a sysop and your application for that was rejected by the community, not the board.
Angela, not on behalf of Wikimedia and not an official opinion.