While deleting/restoring Commons's sandbox for some test I also noticed that although the "protect" action is visible in the history-tab after the restore, it doesn't affect anything.
That protection-flag doesn't get restored for some reason (wonder what the reason is) is one thing, but when it does get showed in the history and no log of unprotection is seen, that is another thing.
The [[commons:Commons:Sandbox]] was indefinite [move=sysop] protected. Then deleted, then totally restored and last "edit" in the history-tab is indeed that protection-action. Yet the page it fully unprotected.
Krinkle
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Severity: enhancement