I saw that RCP REALLY made me patrol my own changes( and I skipped em)!! I think we should give RCP a break. Remove the content manually and add them again. We will give our patrol coach a break too, as the bot has been giving A lot of attention on newbies and other people:)
Imagination, FYI The patrol coach is designed to give attention to the “newbies and other people” as you put it- as they are the people who need the coaching to help them get better at patrolling and alert them if they are making a lot of bad patrols. Remember, Recent Changes Patrol is our frontline of defence to halt bad edits, spam and any bad-faith edits. It is also used by us to help new contributors who make their first edits as well as encourage the really outstanding edits. Giving RCP a “break” would kinda be a bad idea
On the other hand you said that “RCP made me patrol my own changes”. This has happened to me very occasionally-if you would like to know more about it you might ask @Anna
or @Krystle
. It could be a minor bug. Our RC Patrol widget can be a bit temperamental at times. Personally I wouldn’t worry about it!
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Both of your ideas could turn out to be potentially disastrous. Recent changes is the backbone of a wiki, and giving rcp a break would be like opening the doors of a safe to robbers, since vandals and spammers would then deface wikiHow. Giving patrol coach a break would also be a bad idea, since new patrollers might then let spam and bad faith edits through.
As others have pointed out, RCP is one of the “main activity” of wikiHow that maintains its quality. If we give it a “break”, surely vandals and spammers will just pollute wikiHow and lower our standards. Moreover, the patrol coach IS designed to focus on the newbies and other people, so stopping it from doing what it was designed to do is kinda a bad idea.
@Clarinetdude
As an admin, you have the ability to patrol your own edits
This happens two ways: manually by going to the diff page, or automatically by going into your preferences and enabling auto-patrol. You’d have to be very careful if you choose to auto-patrol, though. I have it enabled so my reverts don’t add to the RC backlog. @Imaginationorientated
As mentioned above, self-patrolling is only available for admins, so it shouldn’t exactly work in your case.
@Illneedasaviour
Thanks for letting me know!
Anna
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@Imaginationoriented
- there could be a bug, but it’s more likely that it’s just appearing to patrol your own edits but really it’s skipping them. If you think you’ve patrolled your own, check out your patrol log
and see if you’ve actually patrolled the edit or not. In the past, when I’ve checked into this, it’s just been skipping them (unless you’re an admin, like @Illneedasaviour
said). So it shouldn’t be a problem, but let me know if you find a case where it is. Thanks!
Marina
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Didn’t know that, either! Thanks.
@Imaginationoriented
Were you referring to seeing your own edit on the left? If so, that is because the edit on the right was the change made after
yours. The edit on the right is the edit that you are patrolling. I agree with others that it would be potentially disastrous to give RCP a break. That might allow some spam and vandalism to stay on a page for a little while (or even a while), and that is damaging to the site. The Patrol Coach bot is “here” to help new contributors (and sometimes editors that are not new) become better patrollers. If it weren’t for that bot, it would be harder to stop these editors from patrolling too fast, and thus letting bad edits slip through. This would also cause vandalism and spam to stay on a page for a certain duration of time.
No, I still patrol them. It comes like User Talk:Mrappbrain Imaginationoriented said: Thanks for your edits on my article! And I have to patrol this.
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I am pretty sure you are mistaken. I checked your patrol log, and it tells me that you have only patrolled my talk page twice, both of which were long back, and not your own edits. Regards, Abhishek
