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'''Oversight''' (sometimes referred to as Suppression) is the ability to delete pages, revisions, log entries, and files from the public view, with the additional ability to hide this content from normal [[Administrators]] (sysops). Only when the content is hidden from Administrators is it called Oversight/suppression.
== Permission ==
Permission is granted by adding users to the <code>Oversight</code> group. Requests for permissions should be left at the [[Stewards' noticeboard]].
== Assignment ==
Oversight / suppression is usually only used to:
* Hide non-public personal information about a real individual. This could be private information about you or others
** This includes a telephone number, an address or location, the name of a workplace or school, other online and offline identities, a date of birth, accidentally disclosed IP addresses, and (subject to oversighter judgment) other information of an identifying nature.
* Hide clearly private, personal, or non-public information.
** We suppress some highly sensitive and potentially harmful non-public information, even if it does not strictly help "identify" the person. In the past, we have suppressed content such as the self-disclosure of age or date of birth of a minor, or an individual's medical information. This is subject to oversighter discretion.
* Remove clearly (or probably) libelous posts when we have no editorial need to keep the revision.
* Remove gross vandalism that we would delete if usual deletion tools could deal with it. This includes grossly improper user names. (This is an interim policy and subject to change.)
* Oversight may be used for other reasons: We are not likely to make other exceptions, but reserve the right to do so.
== Identification ==
Users must identify themselves to Orain staff and be logged at the [[Identification log]] before they can be given Oversight permissions.
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