WikiQueer:Patrols

Patrols are a specialized type of WikiProject used in the English WikiQueer to watch over a class of pages and take any appropriate actions. Most patrol actions are performed by individual WikiQueerians, 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 WikiQueer. WikiQueer is big. In fact, WikiQueer is huge. To help editors maintain reasonable quality on an encyclopedia this size, that almost anyone can edit, a number of WikiQueer 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.

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Patrols

 * Article Rescue Squadron (members) – Patrols AfD for articles to rescue by adding referenced material.
 * BLPWatch – Bot patrol of articles containing biographical material based on request.
 * 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.
 * Living People Patrol (members) – Manual patrol of articles containing biographical material based on request.
 * New pages patrol (members) – Patrols newly created pages to improve them and provide assistance to edits made by new users unfamiliar with WikiQueer's policies and guidelines.
 * Random page patrol (members) – Patrols article pages randomly accessed through Special:Random.
 * Recent changes patrol (members) – Patrols recent changes to article pages for harmful edits.
 * Typo Team (members) – Patrols article pages to correct typos and misspellings.
 * WikiProject Unreferenced articles (members) – Patrols articles listed at Category:Articles lacking sources.
 * WikiProject Categories/uncategorized (members) – Patrols Category:WikiQueer backlog to categorizing articles that are uncategorized.
 * WikiQueer:WikiProject Copyright patrol (members) – Patrols pages listed at Category:Possible copyright violations to address raised copyright issues.
 * WikiProject proposed deletion patrolling (members) – Patrols articles categorized into all articles proposed for deletion to assist in WikiQueer's proposed deletion process.