[WikiEN-l] Featured churn

[Andrew Turvey]

----- "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote: 
> From: "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com> 
> To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org> 
> Sent: Monday, 13 July, 2009 03:29:06 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
> Subject: [WikiEN-l] Featured churn 
> 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2009-07-06/Features_and_admins 
> 
> I couldn't help but notice: 
> * Five articles were promoted to featured status this week 
> * Four articles were delisted this week. 
> * Twelve lists were promoted to featured status this week 
> * Eight lists were delisted this week 

I often wondered - what's the point of delisting? Surely if a previous version of an article was good enough to be Featured, if the current version isn't, you should just restore the one that was? 

Or am I missing something? 

Andrew