1) Since this is a technical issue (isn't it?) shouldn't it have been
put up for a vote on meta rather than en:?
2) Many votes were based on a misreading of the question as indicated
by the accompanying comments. The question was "Should non-admins be
given access to view deleted articles (except those that Wikipedia is
legally required to remove)?", yet many people demonstrated a lack of
understanding of the parenthetical in their comments. While this
doesn't nessecarily render the vote invalid, I think it raises some
questions about the meaning of the results.
3) In addition, many of the "no" votes were by administrators who
already have the ability to view deleted pages. While this doesn't
invalidate the results, I think it is something to think about and
believe that expecting administrators to understand the practical
limitations the inability to view deleted content can cause is
unreasonable as they never run into that problem.
Mark
On Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:29:50 +0000, Kate Turner
<keturner(a)livejournal.com> wrote:
Mark Williamson wrote in
gmane.science.linguistics.wikipedia.misc:
[W]hy can't normal logged-in users view
deleted pages?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_deleted_articles
Mark
kate.
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