Patrollers are trusted users who can mark newly created pages on Special:NewPages as patrolled.
If they create a new page, it will automatically be marked as patrolled.
Patrollers are trusted to not add inappropriate material to the Simple English Wikipedia, and make a lot of new pages that do not require patrolling.
Administrators can grant this right at their discretion to trusted users who regularly create articles and have demonstrated they are familiar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines (especially Wiki: BLP, Wiki: Copyright, Wiki: Verifiability and Wiki: Notability). The user right is not normally given to new users, regardless of the number of articles created.
If you wish to request the patroller user right for yourself or another user, please see Wiki: Requests for permissions/Patroller. Administrators do not need to request or add this user right for themselves or other administrators; it is automatically granted as an administrator tool.
Patroller is available to all 19 Wikipedia administrators, and there are 137 users with the patroller permission. In total, 156 editors have patroller rights.
A person without the patroller right creates a page. The MediaWiki software immediately lists the page at Special:NewPages. A user with the patroller right will review the article.
A person with the patroller right creates a page. The MediaWiki software immediately list the page at Special:NewPages. The software (rather than a human) marks the page as patrolled.
Patrolling new pages is an important job that helps in maintaining quality of pages in the encyclopedia. A page being marked as patrolled doesn't necessarily mean the page is perfect or complete, it just means that it meets the basic criteria to be in the encyclopedia.
The first thing to remember while patrolling is that you should only mark the pages that you are sure about as patrolled. If you are unsure whether to mark a page as patrolled or not, you can just skip the page and move to next one. This will leave the page yellow at the new pages list and give others chance to review the page.
Here are the list of things that a patroller needs to consider before marking the page as patrolled:
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