A question about restore and delete page - Mediawiki-api

15 Apr 2013

Hello!

I have a problem here:
Do the restore and delete page action can cancel out each other?
i.e. delete a page and then restore this page, equals we do nothing of this
page.

I listened the recent changes, and got more than 5 revisions of this page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Pierce,_Jr.&redirect=…

And then I got a delete page action,
later I got a restore page action, as you can see from the log:
<rc type="log" ns="0" title="William Pierce, Jr."
rcid="565524106" pageid="
38932317" revid="0" old_revid="0" user="Secret"
oldlen="0"newlen="0"
timestamp="2013-03-27T04:02:12Z" comment="5 revisions restored: keep the
original redirect" logid="48107996"
logtype="delete"logaction="restore"/>

it only restored 5 revisions but not specified what the 5 revisions were.

In my opinion, the restore and delete page actions should cancel out each
other like the restore and delete revision actions.