Talk:Redaction

De-sanitization
Are documents ever "de-sanitized"? I've seen U.S. FOIA documents dated in the 1950s that still contain significant redactions. When it gets to be 60 years past and we're not dealing with sensitive technology like nuclear weapons or personal intelligence sources, this really becomes inexplicable, and in some cases makes it difficult to construct the real historical record of many decades ago. -Rolypolyman (talk) 02:58, 4 October 2009 (UTC)

i know several years late to the party. the answer to the above depends on the level of information and its initial classification. most "sensitive" documents only have a protection period of up to 10 years. however several highly sensitive documents and ones that have an active risk to security & civillian safety (such as plans on the black bird plan) or super sensitive/embaressing info about personal still living (such as the clinton coverup and technically area 51 being redacted) can be blocked for many, many years. there are even several shadow ops reports in Aus/UK of information deemed to dangerous for public knowledge and flagged never to be redacted. 152.91.9.153 (talk) 05:15, 1 August 2014 (UTC)

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Sanitization In Popular Culture
Should we add an “In popular culture” section? A popular fiction-writing website called SCP Foundation censors information by using black boxes, much like the black boxes shown in the pictures on this article. They also replace info with ”[REDACTED]” or “[DATA EXPUNGED]” sometimes as well. Also, the website is about a fictional organization with the same name and that organization keeps a lot of their information classified in-universe. 100.36.44.138 (talk) 12:59, 19 September 2019 (UTC)

Requested move 15 May 2023

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The result of the move request was: moved to Document redaction. WP:BARTENDER. A ptopic takeover can be discussed separately. (closed by non-admin page mover) C LYDE TALK TO ME/STUFF DONE (please mention me on reply) 18:29, 4 June 2023 (UTC)

Sanitization (classified information) → ? – The article and concept are not specific to classified information, and is probably named with "(classified information)" by historical accident. Possible new names: Make sure it's distinguishable from Data sanitization article, which describes a different concept (although the techniques might be used together). 73.223.72.200 (talk) 20:54, 15 May 2023 (UTC) — Relisting. >>> Extorc . talk  08:47, 22 May 2023 (UTC)  — Relisting. >>>  Extorc . talk  15:37, 28 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Sanitization (sensitive information) - close to current title
 * Sanitization of sensitive information - avoid parenthetical qualifier
 * Information sanitization, Document sanitization - possible more concise titles
 * Any of these, but with "redaction" rather than "sanitization". My impression is that "redaction" is more common in general usage, but I'm not sure.
 * What about Document redaction—blindlynx 16:40, 16 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Or, maybe just Sanitization (classified information) → Redaction; and Redaction → Redaction (literary technique) or something similar. Wracking  💬 00:14, 29 May 2023 (UTC)

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