Wikipedia talk:Recent changes patrol/Archives/2009/April

Comment & suggestion re Vandalism patrol
Like many editors, I routinely check anonymous edits to articles on my watchlist as time permits. As you know, many of these are vandals -- around half, ime. (Is there an "official" %?)

Suggestion: establish a "trusted editor" review program, to flag anonymous edits that have already been reviewed and found OK. The flag would show up on the article's Watchlist and Recent Changes listing, and save N additional editors from opening and checking the thing.

Comment: has anyone tried a vandal-bot to pick up obviously-nonsense edits such as this gdflgnfdkjgdkfjkdjnv,cm;lcxnbk;dgbfnbk;ljfb;kjfgnb;knxcvbxkjgcnb;kxfngbk;jfxgn?

Comment-2: Patroller's workload would be drastically reduced if WP would restrict editing to logged-on users. Just a thought. --Pete Tillman (talk) 20:08, 19 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Suggestion: See the FlaggedRevisions thing in the above section.
 * Comment 1: See User:Cluebot.
 * Comment 2: Not possible - it's one of the things that the Foundation has held sacred. ~user:orngjce223 ☺ how am I typing? 19:37, 13 April 2009 (UTC)

Barnstar Discussion
There is a discussion going on here regarding a proposed change to the name of the "RickK Anti-Vandalism Barnstar." As vandalism fighters, I thought some of you might be interested in commenting. Nutiketaiel (talk) 12:08, 28 April 2009 (UTC)