User:Keegan/Suppression policy

Suppression, a UserRight called "Oversighter" by the MediaWiki software, is a form of enhanced deletion which, unlike normal deletion, expunges information from any form of usual access even by administrators. It is used within strict limits to remove defamatory material, to protect privacy, and sometimes to remove serious copyright violations, from any page or log entry on the English Wikivoyage. All information from the suppression log remain non-public to protect the privacy of users and are subject to our No real world threats policy. The suppression log will be only accessible for the selected Oversighters and administrator rights are not sufficient to access that log.

<whatever name preferred if "oversighter" is not here> must be at least 18 years of age, over the age of majority in the jurisdiction they reside in, identified to the Wikimedia Foundation, and be approved by at least..._{fill this in, and change anything else you please above.}

Reasons The four basic reasons from meta, can be expanded but not shrunk:

This feature is approved for use in four cases:

1. Removal of non-public personal information such as phone numbers, home addresses, workplaces or identities of pseudonymous or anonymous individuals who have not made their identity public, or of public individuals who have not made that personal information public.
2. Removal of potentially libelous information either: a) on the advice of Wikimedia Foundation counsel or b) when the case is clear, and there is no editorial reason to keep the revision.
3. Removal of copyright violations on the advice of Wikimedia Foundation counsel.
4. Hiding of blatant attack names on automated lists and logs, where this does not disrupt edit histories. A blatant attack is one obviously intended to denigrate, threaten, libel, insult, or harass someone.