Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-34786354-20170705173459/@comment-1073922-20170727200125

Original Authority wrote: Not sure why you'd want to hide revisions from users anyway; they serve as a history of the page. Hiding them seems cynical.

Our reasons for doing so are listed here. None of those types of edits belong in the page history.

In any case, both deleted revisions and deleted pages can be viewed by users with the custodian usergroup — we're not restricting it to sysops only.