[WikiEN-l] Oversight -- Really new or not?

[Alphax (Wikipedia email)]

Ilya N. wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> You'll have to pardon me as I've been on break for a little bit.
> 
> I'm just wondering how oversight is much different than an admin just
> deleting an article and restoring all but the selected revision.
> 
> It's not like the revision is deleted in the database.
> 
> So why have a separate permissions group?
> 

Because we have 950 admins, and at least one of them is a member of
Wikitruth and has been undeleting stuff to get it posted there.

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