Thread:Talk:Page Curation/Two processes for new article reviews

New mainspace articles are reviewed (or not) in two entirely different and completely independent processes.

Here is how articles are added to the All unreviewed new articles category:
 * The New unreviewed article template is added automatically to articles created via the Wikipedia:Article wizard 2.0 (the discussion page is at WT:WIZ2). The template puts the article in the category. The Category:All unreviewed new articles list is independently generated and is not connected to the New Pages list, and the user’s  Autopatrolled status does not affect articles in the category.

Here is how the autopatrolled right works:
 * A person without the autopatrolled right creates a page. The MediaWiki software immediately lists the page at Special:NewPages, and highlights it in yellow.  A human patroller, as part of the New Page Patrol process, reviews the article and clicks on the link to mark the page as patrolled if it does not qualify for speedy deletion.


 * A person with the autopatrolled right creates a page. The MediaWiki software lists the page at Special:NewPages but marks it as patrolled and does not highlight it in yellow.  The software (rather than a human) marks the page as patrolled.
 * See new pages feed.

Anyone examining how new mainspace articles should be reviewed should study the two entirely different processes work now, and consider combining the processes or changing them to work together, rather than entirely independently.--Dthomsen8 (talk) 22:55, 4 August 2012 (UTC)