[WikiEN-l] Jayjg is not AWOL

[Charlotte Webb]

On 8/30/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> 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".

To know what _sort_ of gems have been oversighted is, in effect, to
know whether one might, for personal amusement (or gain!), be bothered
to poke around for them in the previous database dump.

—C.W.