User:松/draft/Help:Patrolling

The Patroller user group includes the ability to  revisions of users (inclusive of registered users and anonymous users) who don't have the   added to their user accounts. This, in turn, helps to reduce administrative backlog for administrators. One key point to patrolling to remember is that you want to reduce the administrative backlog for administrators, so your patrols should be proper, and as edits improperly marked as patrolled (i.e., without corrections or reversions, as applicable) actually increase that backlog. Repeatedly marking edits as patrolled too quickly could result in your  flag being revoked by an administrator.

The following are a few points on what to mark as patrolled and what not to mark as patrolled and, equally crucially, how to respond to revisions that require remediation.

Page revisions in (Main) namespace

 * If it's a new page:
 * Any page that is broadly related to Miraheze, whether it provides information, provides guidance on official global policies, or otherwise ellucidates or seeks to explain something related to Miraheze or MediaWiki (i.e., a documentation page or collaborative essay)
 * If it's a change to an existing page:
 * Any WikiGnome-type edits (i.e., general copyediting, actual good-faith translations of English pages into other languages, fixing lint errors or broken or double redirects, etc.) or which further explain the policies and documentation or do so in a seemingly constructive way

Page revisions in (Meta) namespace

 * If it's a new page:
 * Any page that is fairly broadly related to Meta (this wiki), whether it provides information, provides guidance on official local policies, or otherwise ellucidates or seeks to explain something related to Meta or its official local policies (i.e., a documentation page or collaborative essay)
 * If it's a change to an existing page:
 * Any WikiGnome-type edits (i.e., general copyediting, actual good-faith translations of English pages into other languages, fixing lint errors or broken or double redirects, etc.) or which further explain the policies and documentation or do so in a seemingly constructive way

Page revisions in (User) namespace
If the user name of the page and the editor match.