[WikiEN-l] Turn off AfD

Fri Dec 9 22:32:10 UTC 2005

On 12/9/05, Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-12-09 at 10:03 -0500, The Cunctator wrote:
> > My idea is to treat article deletion like the rest of page editing.
> > AfD came about originally because deletion was not reversible, so it
> > was necessarily A Big Deal. Once deletion was made reversible (Brion?)
> > deletion didn't need to be a Big Deal.
>
> Its not quite reversible yet:
>
> 1. Only admins can see deletion history (required for legal reasons I
> believe so copyvios can be hidden).
> 2. Deleted stuff goes away eventually in database purges. I think,
> although I may be wrong.
>
> If 2 is a non issue, admins could be given free deletion and restore
> without afd, but not normal users.
>
#1 is not required for legal reasons. Essentially all users should be
able to see the deletion history.

Back in the day when the "admin" class was created the claim by people
like Jimbo is that in the long run nearly everyone would have admin
powers; that it would be no special thing. I was skeptical for obvious
reasons. But I'm still willing to believe that's what we're heading
towards.

Undeleting (in my vision of this experiment) would be accessible to
all registered users who have been around for some non-zero, non-huge
amount of time.