Some of my recent flags asking for citation notice on a couple of old answers from 2014 are declined. In the decline reason, the mod is pointing me to an answer about deleting old unsourced answers from 2014 (when all I asked for was a citation banner). His reasoning appears to be incorrect.
https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/a/2078
no references, needs a banner – sv. 2 days ago
declined - Current policy (https://hinduism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/827/277) doesn't apply to the unsourced answer of olden days.
https://hinduism.stackexchange.com/a/2062
no references, needs a banner – sv. 2 days ago
declined - Don't flag unsourced answer of olden days, as mentioned in policy (https://hinduism.meta.stackexchange.com/a/827/277), it needs to be decided on Let's delete all old answers from early days of the site that lack any references at all
I have flagged several other answers from 2014 & early 2015 which looked like comments or were lacking any references. Other mods didn't have a problem adding a citation banner (e.g., see this and this).
As a result of this, this is what I'm seeing for the last couple of days:
Can this ban be reversed as it looks like the mod acted in error? What is the current policy on how flags on old unsourced answers should be handled? 'Don't flag unsourced answers from 2014'? If yes, why are different mods handling flags in different way?