Wikipedia talk:Requests for oversightship/Kansan

Kansan: Griffinofwales, the other night, you mentioned wanting to ask me something?
Griffinofwales: that's right
Griffinofwales: how often would you check your e-mail if you became an OS
Griffinofwales: and during which time periods would you be available?
Kansan: I check my email constantly throughout the day
openstrings checks hers obsessively
openstrings hacks Griffinofwales's email
Kansan: and I'm usually available periodically from 9 am to 3 pm Central US time on weekdays, and almost always available from 3:30 to 11:30
Kansan: weekends, if I'm at home, I'm usually always available except Sunday mornings
Griffinofwales: would you ever un-oversight any diffs?
Kansan: un oversighting requires a sys admin
openstrings: really?
openstrings: wow
Kansan: yeah
Kansan: I'd be willing to un suppress though if the need be
Griffinofwales: no..
Griffinofwales: yeah, that's what I meant
Griffinofwales: un-revdeling
Kansan: but, yes, I'm willing to un rev del if it was unjustly done
Griffinofwales: would you reveal OSed information to admins/users upon request (giving replies for each circumstance where OS can be used)
Griffinofwales: (link to use guidelines - http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/OS#Use)
Kansan: I would not...
Kansan: If OSing personal information, and the "outed" subject requested, I would tell them the nature of what was posted
openstrings: in that case- if the outed person requested- would you give them exactly what was posted?
Kansan: Due to the risk of somebody impersonating or "fishing", I would privately tell them "a purported address, phone number, etc.", but not the specifics.
Kansan: and because of the possibility of compromised account security.
openstrings: Kansan: say if you oversighted a page created with me as its subject
openstrings: and I contacted you-off wiki, using one of my known contact methods
openstrings: confirming it's me and requesting a copy of what was written.
Kansan: Confirmation can be feigned, so I couldn't provide the specific details. My policy is to provide privately to the subject the nature of what was posted, or types of claims.
Kansan: Especially with personal information so subjects can take care to secure it (i.e. make sure their phone number, etc isn't publicly posted)
Kansan: In general, though, a willingness to share oversighted material defeats the purpose of oversight.
Permission obtained from Kansan and Sonia (openstrings) to post this. Griffinofwales (talk) 03:33, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

To clarify, when I say that "oversight" can't be undone, I was referring to the specific plug-in that used to be used on English Wikipedia (and that is mentioned on the policy page), not suppression itself. Kansan (talk) 04:06, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Indeed. Oversight and oversighter are historic. Suppressor would be a better title, but it sounds slightly ominous. fr33k man 04:27, 22 November 2010 (UTC)[reply]