It strikes that this is part of the problem; Perl is applying the en: procedures for deletion to meta. This is what we want to avoid.It strikes me that the pages should be listed on VfDof >en.Wikipedia so thislittle backwater that is not closely watched nolonger >exists. Hum ?!? Are you suggesting that en.wikipedia is the place which will decide of deletions of pages located on meta ?
This need not be the case. A unified login system is sorely needed - having to log in separately to each different site is a big hindrance to working on multiple projects. I believe that is a big part of what makes meta so poorly used. But integrating logins can be done without creating universal sysops, other than perhaps the new "stewards". The system should be able to provide different user abilities depending on which project you are working on.Perhaps there should be more integration so that separate separate accounts and logging in could be eliminated.Are you suggesting that a sysop on one wikipedia would be sysop on all wikipedias ?