Thread:Talk:New Page Patrol Zoom Interface/Is this really what is wanted?/reply (3)

A button would be very useful if it made more efficient use of volunteer time and brought experienced editors in on articles they understand. Quite a few of the articles that reach the back of the queue have actually been categorised or otherwise cleaned up, especially if the back of the queue is running to thirty days. The people doing that are often very experienced editors, they may even be members of wikiprojects looking at articles that have just turned up in the high level categories for their project and which need checking for hoaxes and often a more appropriate category applied. If those editors also had the option to just click the appropriate ones as patrolled it would take some of the pressure off the end of the queue, and save everyone time.

Please don't underestimate the importance of that Bugzilla request - there are a few medium sized opportunities to improve NPP, but this is the only uncontentious big improvement on the table.