Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Delayed action tags

One of the perennial problems at New Page Patrol is the dissonance between the instinct of newpage patrollers to tag everything as fast as it comes in and the desire of article creators to create articles incrementally saving a sentence at a time. At Special Newpages this is a recipe for edit conflicts, bitten newbies and patrollers whose RFAs combust when the community assesses their tagging.

A partial but simple solution would be to put a time delay on certain edits.

So when a tagger uses the new Zoom feature to tag a new article as A1 or A3 the software could simply tell them that "As the article is only 4 minutes old the tag will be added when the article is one hour old, provided it has not been edited in the meantime". If the article then changed colour within Zoom and wasn't shown to other zoomers it would prevent those awkward newbie biting moments. If the article wasn't edited within its first hour it would then be tagged; If the article was further edited then it could in effect go back in the unpatrolled queue for further consideration.