User:FastLizard4/Patrol Your Edits

Over the past few weeks, some admins (including myself) that it seems that other admins have not been doing their job when it comes to patrolling edits. I'm not going to name names here, but here's how we know: All to often, one of us logs in (myself, much of the time) only to be confronted by nearly fifty unpatrolled edits (once, for me, it was over 100 unpatrolled edits), with evidence that other admins were active during the period of time encompassing the unpatrolled edits (for example, an admin edited a page, yet didn't patrol any edits during the time before and after he edited). This is unacceptable. As an admin, part of your job description is to patrol edits, as are moderating disputes, deleting pages as necessary, protecting pages to stop edit wars, etc. All too often, an admin says "Meh, I'll put this patrol off to later" or "I'll just let this one edit go for another admin to go" without realizing that all of these skips pile up, and contribute to breaking the back of another admin who draws the shorter straw. So, I would like to remind the admins of these points:


 * 1) If you are logged in, patrol edits. If you don't have the time to patrol edits, then don't log in or edit otherwise.  That said, don't use this as an excuse not to patrol edits - if you have the time, please do so.  Just don't neglect your duty.
 * 2) Images need to be patrolled, too, even though they aren't marked as needing patrolling in the Recent Changes queue. Check all uploads to ensure that:
 * 3) They have the proper licensing tag
 * 4) They are not off-topic
 * 5) They bear a fanart tag if they are fanart
 * 6) etc.
 * ...and warn the user/delete the image as necessary.
 * 1) Remember to welcome new users....
 * 2) Check your patrols. If an edit has problems (grammar, formatting, content, etc. errors), please fix it after patrolling it.
 * 3) Remember that, while rollbacking an edit (using the  button) marks the reverted edits as patrolled, undoing via the   button does not.  Remember to go back and mark the undone edit as patrolled.  Remember to mark previous edits as patrolled when you edit a page with unpatrolled edits.
 * 4) Practically the only time when you can validly skip a patrol is if you genuinely cannot decide what to do with an edit - whether or not to revert it or keep it. Use this process to defer to another admin sparingly.

Finally, remember that doing your part to patrol edits help keep the workload of other admins (and yourself) down. Use common sense when patrolling. Be forewarned, however, that I will now be monitoring for admins that don't patrol edits and leave tens to hundreds of them behind for other admins to patrol, and will warn/take action against them individually. If you notice another admin doing this, please let me know on my talk page. As always, contact me on my talk page, via email, or on IRC if you have questions. -- FastLizard4 {ADMIN} (Talk&bull;Contribs&bull;Logs) 07:56, March 15, 2010 (UTC)