Oversight

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.

Requesting Oversight
To request Oversight or to have content suppressed, contact the Stewards via email ( stewards(at)orain(dot)org ) or on IRC. For more information please see Steward requests/Oversight.

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.

Permission
Permission is granted by adding users to the  group. Requests for permissions should be left on Requests for permissions or on the Stewards' noticeboard.

Identification
Users must identify themselves to Orain staff and be logged at the Identification log before they can be given Oversight permissions.