In 2009, the project moved from the oversight extension to suppression (part of revision deletion) to remove edits that fall under the oversight policy. The major upsides of suppression over oversight is the ability to reverse removal from public view and the the ability for members of the Oversight team to view affected revisions. To this day, each person with Oversight can see every removed edit over the past 17 years without it being logged. This creates an extremely high bar to appoint new community members of the Oversight team and makes the user right the most dangerous right on the project.

To reduce the danger the right poses, I propose that viewsuppressed, the part of the oversight user group that allows for viewing all affected revisions, be replaced with a new right I am going to call viewsuppressed-limited. This new limited right should allow members of the Oversight team to view revisions that have been suppressed in the past 6 months. The change would not change the ability for oversighters to view the entirety of the oversight log.

In extremely rare cases there are reasons to view older revisions. The existing viewsuppressed should be added to a new group I am going to tentatively call Auditor. This role should be restricted to subset of the current members of Arbitration Committee. If there is a revision that either the committee or the oversight team need to see due to an ongoing discussion or incident, members of the Auditor role are permitted to share that information.