On Thu, 30 Jul 2009, Gwern Branwen wrote:
The New York Times reporter information was, as far as I know, deleted using normal user editing abilities. Â (Which did not prevent it from becoming a fait accompli.)
And the deletion backed up with protection, mind you: https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&...
I think Jimbo would have been able to do the same thing, or something similarly irreversible by a normal user, for the Rorschach article.