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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 WP:RANPP

Random page patrol is a volunteer-led patrol which refers to the process of regularly
and frequently checking randomly selected pages through Special:Random. The
primary goal of random page patrollers is to ensure random articles conform to
Wikipedia's policies on content and style as well as the related guidelines. Secondarily,
that style and formatting are consistent and meet the basic principles laid out in
Wikipedia's Manual of Style. (The guidelines for the New pages patrol and Recent
changes patrol also apply— only the methodology differs.)
The patrol is entirely voluntary and carries no obligation. Plus it's fun! There are
currently 6,793,346 articles on Wikipedia, so you never know what you may come
across, and it's always a treat when you discover that one treasure of an article or page.
Random-page patrollers are usually also WikiGnomes. If you wish, you can add your
name to the list of RP Patrollers.
Display a random:

Article Talk Redirect Talk User Talk Wikipedia Talk Image Talk MediaWiki Talk Template Talk Help
Talk Category Talk Portal Talk

Regular RP patrollers may wish to put the RP patrol userbox on their user page by adding {{User
wikipedia/RP Patrol}}:

This user is a random page patroller.

See also[edit]
 Wikipedia:Random pages test
 Wikipedia:Random
 Wikipedia:Patrols
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