It is the obvious, clear consensus of the community that the criteria should be adopted. The general criteria to be granted the new "patroller" right is to have made at least 500 undeleted edits to mainspace, to have a registered account for at least 90 days, and to have appropriate experience of a kind that clearly demonstrates knowledge of article quality control. Any user who has made 200 uncontested or unreverted patrols, maintenance, or deletion tags between 1 January 2016 and 06 October 2016 and who has had a clean block log since 01 January 2016 will be granted this right by an admin without requiring a specific request.
This triggers the technical changes approved in the previous RfC:
- Creation of a new "patrollers" user group on the English Wikipedia with the "patrol" right, and granting sysops the ability to add and remove reviewers;
- Removal of the "patrol" right from the "autoconfirmed", "confirmed", and "reviewer" groups (keeping it in the "sysop" group), and adding it to the "bureaucrat" group.
I will file a phab ticket and maybe a git/gerrit commit implementing these soon. Experienced editors are encouraged to develop a coherent policy page relating to the new right.
Boring details about stewards: The approved proposal calls for "subsum[ing]" the right into the steward package. The English Wikipedia community has no control over global rights. However, by the support for this proposal in full, there is a consensus that if the global community later decides to expand the steward global right to include "patrol", subject to global policy, stewards may use that without restriction. Speaking without the closer hat, I can't think of this ever being an issue.
Questions about this close are very welcome. Thanks,
Kevin (
aka L235 · t · c) 20:30, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
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