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@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
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