On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 17:50, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:
[1] Deleting pages is a separate issue. If history-preserving delete isn't working yet, I think we should do without the ability to delete pages until such a time as it is -- it's just too divisive. We can live with just blanking them.
If/when we have history-preserving delete, then I see no good reason not to make it available to all users.
We have history-preserving delete. It's available only to sysops.
I don't think that's terrible terrible, but mainly because I expect that sysop capacity will be something automatically granted to all semifrequent users.