Wikipedia:Patrolled revisions
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This page in a nutshell: Patrolled revisions provides a way to passively monitor articles through collaborative and coordinated patrolling of article revisions. |
Patrolled revisions is a proposed system of collaborative article monitoring that relies on reviewers marking appropriately checked revisions as patrolled, then comparing new revisions to the previously patrolled ones. It is similar to
Overview
The aim of patrolled revisions is to improve the monitoring of articles, particularly
Description
Reviewers have access to Special:UnPatrolledPages (listing pages that have never been patrolled) and Special:OldPatrolledPages (listing pages patrolled at least once with unpatrolled latest revision). They allow respectively to detect unpatrolled pages, that may not have been checked for vandalism, blp violations, etc, and monitor changes to patrolled pages. Those special pages are filterable by category (for example, Category:Living people). It can also be filtered so that only elements on your watchlist appear, and notes how many users are watching a page.
Patrolled revisions would also allow checking of edits by autoconfirmed users who are not reviewers to level 1 PC-protected pages, as those are automatically accepted when the previous revision is, but would not be automatically patrolled. To avoid work duplication, patrolled revisions are automatically accepted.
Patrolling
The aim of patrolling is to indicate that a revision has no major problem requiring immediate attention. Reviewers are expected to apply common sense when patrolling, and as there is no urgency to patrol edits, they should consider editing the article to fix problems, reverting unconstructive edits, or bring issues to the talk page or the appropriate noticeboards. With the exception of the first patrol, reviewing should be based on an analysis of the diff between the latest patrolled revision and the new revision. The standard is greater for patrolling revisions than for accepting them (on pending changes protected pages).
Previously patrolled pages
A revision should not be marked as patrolled if, since the previous patrol:
- it is not acceptable according to the reviewing criteria, i.e. :
- It conflicts with the biographies of living persons policy.
- It contains vandalism or patent nonsense.
- It contains obvious copyright violations.
- It contains legal threats, personal attacks or libel.
- in addition, checks must be done for straightforward violations of the content policies verifiability
- This includes statements clearly and verifiably incorrect or clearly invented, as well as obvious advocacy.
- finally, edits evidently violating behavioral standards such as sockpuppetryshould not be patrolled.
In the absence of any of those reasons for not patrolling, a reviewer is free to patrol the revision if so desired. See this section for information on dealing with ambiguous cases. When a reviewer is uncertain if a revision should be patrolled, it can be left to other reviewers' discretion. All edits, in particular all reverts, must comply with relevant Wikipedia policies - having the ability and intent to patrol revisions is of no influence to one's editing, even in the course of patrolling.
Never patrolled pages
When an article has not previously been patrolled (in this sense), reviewers should verify that in addition to the criteria above, the article satisfies the
Autochecked users
The removed autochecked usergroup had no use and could have been re-purposed to provide a group of users whose edits are automatically patrolled, when the previous revision is already patrolled, with a group autopromotion.
See also
- Wikipedia:Pending changes blocks (and previously Wikipedia:Deferred revisions)