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Patrols are a specialized type of WikiProject used in the English Wikipedia to watch over a class
of pages and take any appropriate actions. Most patrol actions are performed by
individual Wikipedians, but some are performed by bots—computer programs or preprogrammed
scripts that make automated edits without a need for real-time human decision-making.
There is a great need for patrols in Wikipedia. Wikipedia is big. In fact, Wikipedia is huge. To help
editors maintain reasonable quality on an encyclopedia this size, that almost anyone can edit, a
number of Wikipedia community members have set up long-standing patrols. These patrols focus
on various edits and feeds, and their members watch these feeds in the background, or from
time to time, or really, whenever they like. Many of the well-known patrols have hundreds of
users, and are directly responsible as a first line against vandalism, or other potential problems
that may happen.
Why not join in?

Patrols
• AfD Patrol (members) – Patrols AfD (Articles for deletion) to moderate the discussions with
constructive comments.
• Article Rescue Squadron (members) – Patrols AfD (Articles for deletion) for articles to rescue
by adding referenced material.
• Disambiguation pages with links (members) – Patrols the Special:WhatLinksHere for
disambiguation pages having incoming links.
• Help desk patrol (members) – Patrols the help desk and help users who tag their user
spaces with {{helpme}}.
• New pages patrol (members) – Patrols newly created pages to improve them and provide
assistance to edits made by new users unfamiliar with Wikipedia's policies and guidelines.
Note this is a very involved area. There is much that can be learned about Wikipedia for
anyone wishing to accurately engage in this patrol and be willing to master it.
• Random page patrol (members) – Patrols article pages randomly accessed
through Special:Random. Venture into the unwatched and underappreciated corners of
Wikipedia. Can be a serious engagement or just a fun diversion. Serendipitous discoveries
abound!
• Recent changes patrol (members) – Patrols recent changes to article pages for harmful
edits. Can be very rewarding! You may find yourself being given thanks and
various WikiLove from random strangers.
• Typo Team (members) – Patrols article pages to correct typos and misspellings.
• WikiProject Unreferenced articles (members) – Patrols articles listed at Category:Articles
lacking sources.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Categories/uncategorized (members) – Patrols Category:Wikipedia
backlog to categorizing articles that are uncategorized.
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Copyright patrol (members) – Patrols pages listed
at Category:Possible copyright violations to address raised copyright issues.
• WikiProject New Zealand/Vandalism patrol – Patrols Category:New Zealand pages for
vandal edits.
• WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling (members) – Patrols articles categorized into all
articles proposed for deletion to assist in Wikipedia's proposed deletion process. (Semi-
active Project)
• WikiProject Reference Tags (members) – Patrols articles to convert old reference templates
into the most current reference templates.

Patrol templates
Code Result

This user is a member of

{{Template:User Unreferenced Articles}} Usage
the Unreferenced articles WikiProject.

{{Template:User wikipedia/PROD Patrol}} This user is a proposed deletion patroller. Usage

{{Template:User wikipedia/RC Patrol}} This user is a recent changes patroller. Usage

{{Template:User wikipedia/RP Patrol}} This user is a random page patroller. Usage

This user is an Articles for

{{Template:AfD patrol}} Usage
Deletion patroller.

See also
• Wikipedia:New pages patrol/patrolled pages
• Wikipedians by Wikipedia collaboration
• Wikipedian page patrollers

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