MediaWiki:Revdelete-suppress-text

Suppression should only be used for the following cases:

• Nonpublic personal information

  home addresses and telephone numbers, social security numbers, etc.

• Potentially libelous information

  either: a) on the advice of Wikimedia Foundation counsel or b) when the subject has specifically asked for the information to be expunged from the history, the case is clear, and there is no editorial reason to keep the revision.

• Copyright violation:

  on the advice of Wikimedia Foundation counsel.

• 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.