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This is the ability to mark individual revisions as no longer accessible to general readers. It is similar to deletion of a page, but acts on an individual entry in an article's history. Once a revision, or an article, is marked as deleted, it cannot be read by users. A small subset of users do have
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It depends. Some e-mail addresses are obviously personally identifiable, or their presence on pages in the
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Oversight team. Run-of-the-mill copyright violations are generally dealt with by the community according to its usual processes (see
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of the problem edit or edits, and an explanation of why you feel the edit needs to be suppressed. If you have trouble providing a diff, you can also provide us with the title of the page the edit was made to, and the time the edit was made to that page. If you're requesting suppression of multiple
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Oversight and Suppression on English Knowledge (XXG). Please note that these are intended to be general answers to common questions; if you are unsure of a specific case, it is always best to consult the Oversight team. As all cases are unique and no set of guidelines can be exhaustive, much
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Oversight team are all volunteers, and sometimes cannot act on requests immediately. If you have made an urgent request that has not yet been actioned, we are sorry. Please know that we do not ignore requests; if you made a request that hasn't been acted on, that probably means that either no
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post requests for oversight or revision deletion on public noticeboards. The goal of revision deletion and suppression is to minimize the number of editors who see problematic content, and posting a link to something on a noticeboard can only increase the number of editors who see it. You should
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Oversight team is discussing the matter internally. You may wish to try contacting an individual oversighter, via e-mail or IRC, to ask them to check on your request, or you could try re-sending your request to
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edits, please be sure to specify that, and provide diffs or page/time information for each edit. You don't need to provide us with your username, though if you use the
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Oversight team is not the body empowered to handle threats of harm. It may, at oversighter discretion, suppress information contained in such threats, especially if the edits relate to private personal information or are potentially libelous. However,
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version, so you should generally revert or trim the problematic content out of the page in question prior to contacting the oversight team. This also makes the objectionable material significantly less visible until oversight is applied to
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put important information only in the subject. The OTRS system the
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covered under our oversight policy. If the offensive edit alleges illegal activity or otherwise legally- or personally-damaging information, please contact an oversighter to have them evaluate the edit.
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the discretion of the suppressor as to the nature of the address and what should be done. In difficult cases, like most others, the suppression is usually discussed on the oversight-l mailing list.
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get your request handled any more quickly; it will only make more work for the oversighter who eventually attends to it, who now will need to suppress posts on another page as well.
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