User:Alexis Reggae/Autopatrol for admins

In a recent discussion there was debate about an administrator who had mass-created tens of thousands of stubs based on sources that either fail to assert notability or are faulty. These tens of thousands of stubs managed to largely fly under the radar partly because they were autopatrolled and the  right is bundled with the administrator bit.

There are cases where an admin may wish to perform edits without those edits getting automatically patrolled, but currently this is simply impossible without an alternative account. Autopatrol is different from for example rollback in that it's not possible to simply not use it. It can't be disabled.

The proposal is to unbundle autopatrol from the  user group, giving administrators the option to assign and un-assign autopatrol to themselves as needed. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 09:27, 18 April 2021 (UTC)
 * Feel free to improve this page. — Alexis Jazz (talk or ping me) 09:27, 18 April 2021 (UTC)