Community Wishlist Survey 2023/Admins and patrollers/Add block option to hide or suppress username from logs

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Add block option to hide or suppress username from logs

Problem: Usernames are always saved in the blocklog and other logs, some usernames should not be visible in the log. Logs must all be deleted individually.
Proposed solution: On the page "Special:block" the possibility to hide / suppress (for Oversighters) the username in all logs.
Who would benefit: Sysops
More comments: See 2021
Phabricator tickets: phab:T23097
Proposer: 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 15:51, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion

This is more of an "anti-harassment" item, so maybe it belongs there, but yes I'm for it all the same. Daniel Case (talk) 23:20, 29 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@WikiBayer: Thanks for this proposal. It might be helpful to elaborate in the "Who would benefit" section on the proposed benefits. It seems like there are potential benefits both for sysops (time savings) and for other users (not seeing bad usernames in logs). This will help other editors understand why they might want to vote for this! Samwalton9 (WMF) (talk) 13:51, 30 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

To be clear, there is an option to hide usernames from logs. The linked task is about making that option available to admins (and not just oversighters). (Also, admins can already hide usernames from logs on a one-by-one basis via RevDel, but that can be quite cumbersome. Also also, the existing option is for SUL users; it might make sense to support such functionality locally, and to avoid dependency on the CentralAuth extension.) --Tgr (talk) 02:09, 1 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Are we talking about abusive/swearing/toxic login names? Wakelamp (talk) 13:20, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Local oversighters already have a checkbox in Special:Block (added by having the hideuser right) to suppress the username from lists and logs upon blocking. Is this is to have a similar function for admins, as per the Phabricator ticket? —MarcoAurelio (talk) 10:29, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Yes. There should be a similar function as the one for oversighter for admins. 𝐖𝐢𝐤𝐢𝐁𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫 👤💬 10:37, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
I'm not really seeing the use case for administrators to have this. Some further explanation would be helpful. Risker (talk) 03:22, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Voting

Support --NGC 54 (talk｜contribs) 00:17, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support * Pppery * _{it has begun} 03:40, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Libcub (talk) 05:16, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hanif Al Husaini (talk) 05:24, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Anarchyte (talk) 07:02, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Arado Ar 196 (talk) 08:06, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support CaféBuzz (talk) 09:47, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Shizhao (talk) 13:34, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Novak Watchmen (talk) 17:19, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Thomas Kinz (talk) 18:55, 11 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Daniel Case (talk) 02:55, 12 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support ドラみそ (talk) 02:53, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Antimuonium ^{U wanna talk?} 22:59, 14 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support cyrfaw (talk) 11:31, 15 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Hey man im josh (talk) 15:09, 16 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Kalesh (talk) 09:01, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support This would save quite a lot of time having to RevDel manually. -- Ferien (talk) 20:15, 17 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support --Minorax^«¦talk¦» 08:58, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support FoBe (talk) 14:25, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose --Libertyguy (talk) 21:19, 18 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support — Draceane ^talk_contrib. 10:59, 20 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support 星海子 (talk) 16:19, 21 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support Morten Haan (talk) 18:04, 22 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Support —— Eric Liu_（Talk） 01:32, 23 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]
Oppose per Rikser, oversighter functionality seems enough in my opinion. ~~~~
User:1234qwer1234qwer4 (talk) 16:53, 24 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]