Bryan Derksen wrote:
Armed Blowfish wrote:
No. There are plenty of matters on which I disagree with Jayjg. But I do believe he means well, and oversight is basically a Good Thing (TM), quite usefull for protecting privacy. Letting me know exactly what sort of information is being protected would defeat the point of protecting it.
Knowing what _sort_ of information is being oversighted is a far cry from knowing the information itself, I don't see how it defeats the point. If I were to ask why something was oversighted there's a big difference between getting the answer "because it contained personal identifying material" and "it contained the home address of User:Encyclofreak, who lives at 121 Big Tree Road in Seattle, NV".
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That was brought up on-wiki as well, and I would tend to agree. Just like a deleted attack article just contains a deletion summary, something to the effect of "G10: Attack page", but not the offending text itself. There's a big difference between "Oversighter removed 2 revisions: Contained personal information" and "Someuser's phone number is 123-456-7890! Call him and tell him he sucks!"