On 0, K P <kpbotany(a)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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