[Wikipedia-l] Our options; *your* opinion requested

[The Cunctator]

On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 17:50, Matthew Woodcraft wrote:

> [1] Deleting pages is a separate issue. If history-preserving delete
> isn't working yet, I think we should do without the ability to delete
> pages until such a time as it is -- it's just too divisive. We can live
> with just blanking them.
> 
> If/when we have history-preserving delete, then I see no good reason not
> to make it available to all users.

We have history-preserving delete. It's available only to sysops.

I don't think that's terrible terrible, but mainly because I expect that
sysop capacity will be something automatically granted to all
semifrequent users.