No, normal users cannot see deleted articles or their edit histories (which I think is crazy). Only Wikipedia administrators can see this information. http://

No, normal users cannot see deleted articles or their edit histories (which I think is crazy). Only Wikipedia administrators can see this information. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Access_to_deleted_pages http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Deletion_policy#Acces... says: Because many deleted articles are found to contain defamatory or other legally suspect material, deleted pages are not permitted to be generally viewed. However, they remain in the database (at least temporarily) and are accessible to administrators, along with their edit history unless they are oversighted. Any user with a genuine reason to view a copy of a deleted page may request a temporary review (or simply ask an administrator to supply a copy of the page). Note that these requests are likely to be denied if the content has been deleted on legal grounds (such as defamation or copyright violation), or if no good reason is given for the request.