On Sat, 2004-04-12 at 08:59 -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
The chief reason to be deleting something (as opposed to redirecting it to a more appropriate article or replacing it with a better one) is that it includes copyrighted material that we don't have permission to distribute. This necessitates not being able to have _just anybody_ come along and view or undelete it.
Technically, it's probably not that kosher even to make the works available to admins.
~ESP