On 0, K P kpbotany@gmail.com scribbled:
Nope, I'm talking about an admin who recently oversighted much of his talk page, then himself. And it's not the first time I've seen it happen. And courtesy oversights are done for users all of the time--and I don't mean "delete," unless by that you mean good-bye to the page's edit history also.
KP
Uh, yes, I do. That's what deletion means. It's not just page blanking, but rendering inaccessible to admins all past revisions/page history. That's what it has always meant; courtesy deletions aren't sinister at all. I've requested and done them many a time.
Oversight is deletion for admins; deletion where they aren't allowed to see what was deleted. The only 'courtesy oversights' I can think of is the usual OTRS and "personal information" stuff. (Well, that and embarrassing stuff like the original Seigenthaler article. That was deleted and moved and oversighted so many times I'm not sure it can be recovered even with oversight.)
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