Wikipedia:Autopatrolled

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This page in a nutshell: New pages created by user with the autopatrolled permission are automatically marked as "reviewed". Granted to prolific creators of 'clean' articles, it does not confer any additional technical abilities and is used solely to manage the workload of new page patrol.

Autopatrolled is a user right given to prolific creators of clean articles and pages in order to reduce the workload of the New Page Patrol process on Wikipedia.^{[note 1]} New articles and pages created by autopatrolled editors are still listed on new page lists and feeds, but are automatically marked as "reviewed" and "patrolled" in the system, and hence are listed as if a new page patroller has already looked through them and manually marked them as legitimate or acceptable. Users with this right have no additional technical abilities; it does not change how an editor creates articles, nor does it change or "enhance" any aspect of the user experience, user interface, or the ability for an editor to create or modify pages. It only automates a process "behind the scenes" that is normally performed by other users manually.

There are currently 4,781 autopatrolled users.
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