redaction vs deletion

redaction and deletion both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
redaction	Yes	No	No	No
deletion	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, deletion is a hyponym of redaction; that is, deletion is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than redaction:

redaction: putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form
deletion: the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

Other hyponyms of redaction include copy editing, cut, excision, correction, revising, rewriting.

redaction (noun)	deletion (noun)
the act of putting something in writing	the act of deleting something written or printed
putting something (as a literary work or a legislative bill) into acceptable form	the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage
	(genetics) the loss or absence of one or more nucleotides from a chromosome
	any process whereby sounds or words are left out of spoken words or phrases