Wikipedia:Autopatrolled

The autopatrolled (formerly autoreviewer) user right is intended to reduce the workload of new page patrollers and causes articles created by autopatrolled users to be automatically marked as patrolled. It means that the user can be trusted not to submit inappropriate material, deliberately or otherwise, and that the user submits new material often enough that it is more efficient to mark it all as approved preemptively.

Any administrator 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 WP:BLP, Wikipedia:Copyrights, WP:Verifiability and WP:Notability). A suggested standard is the prior creation of 50 valid articles, not including redirects. Any individual admin may grant this userright to any user he or she wishes to, even if the user has not created 50 articles. The userright is not normally given to brand-new editors, regardless of the number of articles created.

If you wish to request Autopatrolled rights for yourself or another user, please see Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled. Administrators do not need to request or add this user right for themselves or other administrators; it is automatically granted as part of the administrator tools package (specifically, the autopatrolled permission).

There are 4,793 autopatrolled users, which makes the total number of users with this permission 5,649 (the rest are administrators).

How it works

Normal process

A person without the autopatroller right creates a page. The MediaWiki software immediately lists the page at Special:NewPages. Another human, as part of the New Page Patrol, looks at the article and clicks on the link to mark the page as patrolled.

Autopatroller process

A person with the autopatroller right creates a page. The MediaWiki software does not list the page at Special:NewPages. The software (rather than a human) marks the page as patrolled.

Points to note

• New Page Patrollers: Only people who are creating brand-new pages can use the autopatrolled userright. This userright is only useful in the act of creating a new page. It does nothing at all when the user is looking at or patrolling pages.
• Article Expanders: Only people who create the page (e.g., by clicking on a redlink) can use this. If you're expanding a page that someone else started or turning a redirect into an article, then the userright is not active.
• "The autopatrolled right will help me create articles": No, it won't. We assign this userright to prolific article creators to help the NPPers focus on pages created by inexperienced editors. The point of this userright is to help the NPPers, not to help the article creators.
• Inexperienced Editors: Because this userright bypasses one of our human-based screening programs, the community needs to trust that you're creating good-quality articles on notable topics. If you have little experience, or if your experience suggests only a partial understanding of the relevant policies and guidelines, then you do not qualify for this userright.

See also

• An automatically generated list of users with this flag.
• JVbot with its patrol whitelist was the predecessor to this system, before the functionality was built into the MediaWiki software.
• The Village Pump discussion that led to the creation of this usergroup.
• Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Autopatrolled – the place to request Autopatrolled rights for yourself or anyone else.
• {{Autopatrolled}} – a top icon template to indicate you have the autopatrolled user right.
• {{User wikipedia/autopatrolled}} – a userbox template to indicate you have the autopatrolled user right.
• DBQ-87 – a database query used to generate candidates for this privilege.