Comment by car_analogy

That's an answer to an entirely different question. It explains why only 'notable' things get articles, not why deleted articles are only accessible to admins. Perhaps you meant to link https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Viewing_of_deleted_a... ?

I've read that, and their arguments are wanting. The most convincing is the doxing/legal reasons rationale. What is not convincing is using that rationale to hide the vast majority of articles that were not deleted for those reasons.

The other argument offered was "then what's the difference between a deleted and not deleted article", which is nonsense. By that logic, there is also no difference between deleting some text in an article, and leaving it in, since in both cases it is still accessible in revision history.

Finally there was the "would encourage trolls since their trolling would remain in history", but again, the same argument applies to revision history of non-deleted articles.