After some discussion as to how we handle the declining number of admins on the English language Wikipedia we got consensus for one proposal to reduce our need for admins by allowing anyone to delete their own mistakes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Requests_for_adminship/2013_RfC/2#Unbundling_-_some_U1_and_G7s
All logged in editors would be able to delete pages if:
Either: They were in their userspace and had not been moved there from somewhere else, or edited by someone else (ignoring bot edits and edits flagged as minor)(This does not allow you to delete anything in user talk or any other namespace).
Or: Any page that the editor created and which is less than three months old, unless it has been moved or has been edited by another editor (ignoring bot edits and edits flagged as minor).
The three months might well be a variable that admins will want to vary by project.
Limiting this to logged in editors reflects the reality that there may be several people editing under the same IP address.
I suspect that many other projects will also use this feature if it were enabled on EN wiki. As well as helping with the declining number of admins this change would contribute to the WMF's agenda of making the projects more open by empowering more editors.
Version: 1.22.0
Severity: enhancement