On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 10:03 -0500, The Cunctator wrote:
My idea is to treat article deletion like the rest of page editing. AfD came about originally because deletion was not reversible, so it was necessarily A Big Deal. Once deletion was made reversible (Brion?) deletion didn't need to be a Big Deal.
Its not quite reversible yet:
1. Only admins can see deletion history (required for legal reasons I believe so copyvios can be hidden). 2. Deleted stuff goes away eventually in database purges. I think, although I may be wrong.
If 2 is a non issue, admins could be given free deletion and restore without afd, but not normal users.
Justinc