Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/New page PATROLLERS/reply (11)

I feel like this is becoming unnecessarily complicated. I'm certainly not envisioning an "RfA" type process for handing out pagepatroller user rights. That would be way over the top. I think it should be handled like all other uncontroversial user rights are handled, like w:Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Rollback or w:Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Confirmed. We would just set up another Request for permissions subpage like w:Wikipedia:Requests for permissions/Pagepatroller, and anyone can ask for the permission there. As long as they satisfy a basic list of criteria, then the user right would be given to them. As for the criteria, I'm envisioning something like: The numbers could be tweaked, those are just off-the-cuff suggestions. If a user satisifies the above criteria and has enough clue to actually find the place to request permissions, then there's a good chance they have enough clue to patrol pages at a basic level. This doesn't mean that we can't or shouldn't still build in some kind of process to allow review of their patrols by more experienced users, but I think handing out the user right should be handled like all other uncontroversial user rights are handled.
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 * If pagepatroller user right has been revoked in the past, require an explanation for how previous problems have been addressed