Toby-
That's just what *I* thought that Anthere was
bringing up again.
What else would one expect a nonadmin to see on that page?
At most a mere list of previous revisions, so as to see who wrote them.
The text of deleted pages will remain hidden to non-sysops, for a variety
of reasons which have been discussed ad nauseum.
As for copyright infringements in article histories, this may be a reason
to have a "delete this revision" function.
Regards,
Erik