[WikiEN-l] Requirements for Adminship

[Ray Saintonge]

Rich Holton wrote:

>I don't think it does anyone any good to minimize the real differences 
>that exist. As an admin, I can view any deleted article any time I want 
>with no permission, implicit or explicit, and no community review. This 
>is a big deal to some non-admins, and there are presumed legal reasons 
>for keeping this distinction. Just telling people to self-nominate for 
>the current, restrictive RfA is not a viable solution to people who may 
>have good reason to view those deleted articles. This is just one example.
>
One way in which I would have found this useful when I was more active 
in Wiktionary would have been to review the history of articles that 
were transwikied.  Such a use would have been entirely passive in that 
it would involve no change to the Wikipedia database.  Needing to be 
dragged into the usual battles over deletion, blocking, etc. would be 
too high a price for such a privilege.

Ec