Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Can we apply a similar anti-vandalism approach to NPP?/reply (4)

You have a good point—fully automated checks have some serious pitfalls. However, content-aware bots could be handy too. Once we have a data model in place for article tagging (for tracking things like, "Which patrol checks are completed?" for example), bots could use an API to attach tags like "probable-vandalism" and "probable-spam", maybe even with a score parameter. Then, it'd be possible to search for those articles in the NPP interface, or to configure the zoom interface to show them at the top.

Since those are usually clear-cut cases (vandalism is usually obvious and finding it requires learning only a small amount of policy), they could be a good place to start newbie NPPers.

In some future where we have lots of patrollers and can move to multiple people agreeing on a decision before applying templates (there's got to be a short name for that), the bot's vote could count for a couple human reviewers, speeding up the process.