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That's mostly my thought on this, although it does, without actual justification, assume that the copy-paster cares...
And, of course, there is one case where the statement (especially the "not applicable" part) might actually be unconditionally justified: a one-table application with no in-database links to anything else, but that seems pretty unlikely.
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More likely it's the consequence of the system being preloaded with a bunch of old data scrounged up from excel files, physical archives and god knows what else all of which had different incompatible schemas which now lead to a system where literally everything is optional. That or someone didn't know how to handle delete properly.