[Wikipedia-l] ahem... somebody thought they were writingJeopardy questions!

[Brion VIBBER]

Karen AKA Kajikit wrote:
> BTW, the 'delete this page' option is very handy in the stub and orphan
> list... but I really doubt that it belongs in the 'long articles'
> listing.

Well, if there were a page listed there with a length of several million 
bytes, you might well suspect it to be deletable material.

 > It's rather dangerous! I doubt that the people who wrote
> treatises on various things would like to see them casually deleted by a
> passer-by or a troll...

Passers-by and trolls haven't been granted sysop status, so don't have a 
"delete this page" option.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)