On 7/11/06, Jay R. Ashworth jra@baylink.com wrote:
Snipping your rant for a moment, the reason that rollback is protected (more than other things) is that in the stream of wikidom, rollback is about the only thing which can't be... rolled back.
Er, rollback can be rolled back. Not only that, it can generally be rolled back by *anyone*, even an anonymous user. Therefore, privileges such as deletion (which can only be reverted by one of a few hundred admins) are significantly more sensitive.