[WikiEN-l] I suppose we had to see this news story soon enough

[Thomas Dalton]

> Admins do make the deletion decisions, they just do so after "the
> community" comments.

Admins make determinations, not decisions. They determine is there is
a consensus to delete, or if an article fits a CSD. Those aren't
decisions, since there is no choice. With a decision, you can choose
anything you like, with a determination, there is a right answer which
you have to try and find.

> I think the more serious error in that paragraph is that it says that
> this situation is a change stemming from "a series of incidents".
> Adminship is nothing new, nor is deletion or page protection.  Even
> deletion based on alleged lack of notability isn't all that new.  It's
> been around at least since the deletion of the 9/11 victims.

Adminship hasn't been around since the beginning, though. It was
introduced to deal with the increasing number of issues requiring
Jimbo (and a couple of developers) to intervene. The article is
correct, just rather out of date.