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Every edit, the content of the edit, who made the edit, and when the edit was made is publicly logged. Every version of a page after every edit is similarly logged. This makes this website incredibly resilient to breakage, but also means that it's difficult to truly delete information. Simply editing the information out and clicking "Save changes" is insufficient. Anyone with an internet connection can check the page's history and still find the information.

If an edit is published to a page with information that the user does not want to be publicly accessible, then the information should still be edited out, but then a wiki administrator must be notified so they can delete the edit from the public archives. '''This notification should be done privately to avoid the [[wikipedia:Streisand effect|Streisand effect]]'''. For details on wiki administrators do this, check out [[mediawikiwiki:Help:RevisionDelete|Help:RevisionDelete]].

If an edit is published to a page with information that the user does not want to be publicly accessible, then the information should still be edited out, but then a wiki administrator must be notified so they can delete the edit from the public archives. '''This notification should be done privately to avoid the [[wikipedia:Streisand effect|Streisand effect]]'''. For details on how wiki administrators do this, check out [[mediawikiwiki:Help:RevisionDelete|Help:RevisionDelete]].

Certain automated filters are in place that will detect when particular public information that is likely inappropriate to add has been introduced into an edit and either warn the user to exercise caution or disallow the edit entirely. Editors are encouraged to take such warnings seriously.

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 Every edit, the content of the edit, who made the edit, and when the edit was made is publicly logged. Every version of a page after every edit is similarly logged. This makes this website incredibly resilient to breakage, but also means that it's difficult to truly delete information. Simply editing the information out and clicking "Save changes" is insufficient. Anyone with an internet connection can check the page's history and still find the information.
-If an edit is published to a page with information that the user does not want to be publicly accessible, then the information should still be edited out, but then a wiki administrator must be notified so they can delete the edit from the public archives. '''This notification should be done privately to avoid the [[wikipedia:Streisand effect|Streisand effect]]'''. For details on wiki administrators do this, check out [[mediawikiwiki:Help:RevisionDelete|Help:RevisionDelete]].
+If an edit is published to a page with information that the user does not want to be publicly accessible, then the information should still be edited out, but then a wiki administrator must be notified so they can delete the edit from the public archives. '''This notification should be done privately to avoid the [[wikipedia:Streisand effect|Streisand effect]]'''. For details on how wiki administrators do this, check out [[mediawikiwiki:Help:RevisionDelete|Help:RevisionDelete]].
 Certain automated filters are in place that will detect when particular public information that is likely inappropriate to add has been introduced into an edit and either warn the user to exercise caution or disallow the edit entirely. Editors are encouraged to take such warnings seriously.