Indeed.
In fact, the way rating and numbers are used and calculated is complete mystery to nearly everyone on the site. There are lots of "I think" and "I heard," but it is quite confusing and very unclear (perhaps very intentionally to keep people from gaming the system). Because of that, I support simply removing that one line that says "XX Ratings" (will be removed) from the unpublish option. That's all, just remove that line. While that may not make anything more clear, I think it might help, as mizal pointed out, so that people aren't afraid to unpublish and republish.
As for how things are calculated, I think that's a different issue. If that's ever worked on and it actually becomes true that those ratings are removed, then this line could easily be added back.
