Proposal:Change usergroup name "Oversight"

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A feature request or bug related to this proposal has been submitted to Bugzilla under ID 20337. See Category:Proposals with Bugzilla submissions for all submitted bugs.

Summary

Change the name of usergroup "Oversight" to something more descriptive.

Proposal

This Proposal does not offer a solution, but rather tries to start a discussion about a better name. It has often be pointed out that Oversight is not a perfect name for the usergroup.

Potential new names (please add new proposals, pro's and con's):

proposed name	Pro	Contra
Oversight (current name)	No changes have to be made	not intuitive misleading (oversight is not supervision; we don't actually use Oversight any longer)
Suppress	Is partially already in use	Has a negative connotation (Censorship)
Edit-Hiders	Self-describing	It's not only about edits, but also edit summaries, logs and usernames. Sounds juvenile
Revision-suppressors	More detailed description	Long, possibly difficult to translate
Concealer	Somewhat descriptive of what suppression does	Cabal Likely to lend more credence to "cabal" complaints The actual definition is of a flesh-coloured cosmetic
Deletion	fairly descriptive of what it does not really, nothing is ever irrevocably deleted	Deletion would have to be renamed suppression (actually that's an advantage)
Super-Admin	fairly descriptive of what it is Doesn't describe what it is at all. "Super-admin" describes a user not deleting/hiding/whatever something. And oversighters are not super-admins.	Sounds like Super-Hero
Janitor	Motto: When there's a nasty mess the Janitors clean it up. It's really hard for conspiracy nuts to make Janitor sound threatening. It's a humbling name	Not much glory being a Janitor It is a humbling name
Privacy admin	Self-descriptive Neutral Used as the name of the IRC group Template:IRC

What it's called in other language

List of back-translation from localisation:

• id:Pengawas (Indonesian), lit. Watchers -- not very descriptive either -- or Supervisor, Caretaker

Problems

• Deletion is a wrong term for admin's ability to hide articles from non-admins. Currently the only way of deleting pages is to delete them manually from the database (which is highly discouraged). Terms like hiding suggest that OS is less severe than deletion.

Motivation

Usergroup names should be intuitive and self-descriptive. This is not the case for "Oversight", which suggests some kind of supervision.

Key Questions

• What better names are there?

Potential Costs

• No monetary costs
• Small configuration changes on Wikimedia servers
• Documentation has to be changed
• Users who are already aware of "Oversight" have to be informed about the new name

References

• Discussions:
  • bugzilla:20337

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