On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 08:00:57PM +0000, Kate Turner wrote:
It was already proposed to allow non-sysops to see deleted articles [1]. There wasn't a consensus in favour of it. If you only want this to apply to sysops, there doesn't seem to be much difference to how it is.
Yup, I caught that, and though admittedly it doesn't bode well for my hopes of achieving support, this does get us a lot more (imho) than being able to view deleted pages, in fact I'd see it as a worthwhile plan even if you see having deleted pages viewable as a drawback.
The big thing is not being able to view pages after deletion, but having deletion be "just another edit", and the same for undeletion. That way they can be handled by the same mechanisms as any other edit, mechanisms which though they may not be perfect are a lot less problematic than those surrounding deletion in its current form.