User:T3CHNOCIDE/User rights/Patrollers

Patrollers are a high tier anti-spam and anti-vandalism user group comprised of voluntary users. Their primary role is to patrol the recent changes page marking good edits as patrolled while reverting and reporting spam and vandalism to pages. They act as role models to editors offering advice and guidance on editing, and warning users who make edits which do not meet the wiki's editing standards.

Expectations
Patrollers are expected to be very experienced editors who are capable of recognising edits which do not follow the wiki's high standards or follow the wiki's editing policies. They should have good knowledge of using tools such as the recent changes page. They are also expected to express good judgement when determining if a low quality edit was made in good faith or as a result of vandalism or spam.

Patrollers should be polite and professional in their communication. They should warn and report users who are seen to be spamming or vandalising, while at the same time guide and not intimidate users who are making edits in good faith but fall short of the wiki's editing standards.

Tools
As Patrollers are an anti-spam and anti-vandalism user group who patrol and mark edits. As such, their tools are focused on reverting the damage caused by spammers and vandals, with the additional tools to help prevent further vandalism in future.

Unlike Rollbackers and Image Controllers who perform a responsive role, acting on spam and vandalism which has already occured, Patrollers can take a more proactive role in preventing spam by protecting pages. To perform these roles, Patrollers have the following added user tools:


 * Rollback and Image Controller rights – Patrollers inherit all the tools from the Rollback and Image Controller user groups to continue patrolling files, blogs and top 10 lists.
 * Auto-patrol – All edits by the user are automatically marked as patrolled.
 * Patrol – Allows Patrollers to mark checked edits as patrolled on the recent changes page.
 * Protect – Allows Patrollers to protect pages subject to high vandalism and spam.
 * Delete – Allows Patrollers to delete spam and vandalism pages.
 * Browse archive – Allows Patrollers to see previously deleted pages and their history.

List of Rollbackers
The following is a list of Patrollers on the wiki. Users may contact one of the following users to report spam/vandalism or request Patroller help:





It is important to note that Administrators inherit Patroller rights by default.

Becoming a Patroller
Patrollers are comprised of voluntary users who are elected by community consensus. If a user meets the requirements they are able to apply on the Requests for Patroller page. Here community members can vote in support or opposition of a users addition to the user group. When the user gains a sufficient amount of support they are added to the group. The requirements to qualify for the Patroll user rights are:


 * 700 main-space edits
 * Read Recent Changes Guide
 * Read Patrolling Guide
 * Read Vandalism and Spam Guide
 * Read Protect Pages Guide
 * Read Deleting Pages Guide
 * No questionable activity on the wiki within 6 months of application.

Review of Patrollers
If Patrollerss are seen to be misusing their tools, to be playing a detrimental role to the wiki or to have been absent for an extended period of time they could be subject to review of their position. Not all instances of inactivity or presumed misuse of tools denote the need for user rights review. Each review is met on a case by case basis.

If a user believes a Patroller necessitates a review of their user rights they can propose it on the User group review page. Here users can discuss and vote whether a user's user rights should be relinquished.

Restoration of a Patroller
Users who were previously a member of the Rollback user group may be restored to Rollbacker on request. Restoration of a user's Rollback rights may occur when the reason for previous user rights removal was due to inactivity, voluntary removal or following community consensus permitting return to the user group. If loss of previous user rights was not during or as a result of controversial circumstances, then re-discussion or re-application for the user group is not necessary.