Originally Posted by
CCrew
That's far from correct. By cleaning it you're flushing the fine grit out of the chain, a process that's not covered by your oil and wipe.
By oiling it on the inside of the link and cycling it a bunch of times I not only flush out the grit, I replace it with fresh oil. The grit gets wiped off with the extra oil.
If you'd like to make it complicated, be my guest... but my chains run quiet, last for thousands of kms and still look new until the end so that's good enough for me.