Eclecticology wrote:
Toby Bartels wrote:
>Undeletion should never require more official
validation than deletion.
Perhaps undeletion should be available to everybody,
not just sysops.
Deletion itself could still be limited to sysops.
Ideally, all of these features would be available to everybody.
Deletion was made an admin-only process because undeletion was impossible
(check old talk history on deletion policies). Now it might be expanded.
Unfortunately, deletion is handled so differently by the software
(and what's most relevant here is the inexperienced user sees it)
that I doubt that people would easily treat is as just another edit.
If the software can be made to treat it as just another edit,
then there would be no reason to restrict it (hence also not undeletion).
Another problem is our reliance on ''page'' deletion
as a way of deleting ''specific revisions'' that infringe copyright.
Since this is only effective when the infringement is a page creation,
it's not a permanently workable method. That software may change too.
-- Toby