Wikipedia:Recent changes patrol

Recent changes patrol, or RC patrol, is a whereby individual users check the of various articles for inappropriate edits.

RC Patrolling primarily consists of a four step process:

Thank You.

See also:

One thing to keep in mind is to not only focus on patrolling articles in the main namespace but also to check other pages — such as, for example, image pages, which are frequently victims of nonsensical edits and vandalism. Such unchecked edits may be particularly harmful because the result might be removal of copyright tags.

Look for newcomer tests (odd edits which are not vandalism), but do not bite the newcomers. Revert their experiments and leave one of the following messages on their user talk page. Be sure to sign and timestamp (~~~~) the warning.

Addition of unsourced material without proper citations

Further non-constructive edits sometimes can be viewed as vandalism, and dealt with as below.

Look out for vandalism, and revert it. It is often worthwhile to check the page history after reverting to make sure you have removed all the vandalism. Also, check the user contributions of the vandal - you will often find more malicious edits.

Additionally, leave warning messages on the vandal's talk pages using the following system.

Also be sure to check discussion pages for possible explanations of edits.

Note that these templates need not be used sequentially. If the edit is clearly vandalism, use the template {{}} instead. For continuing severe vandalism, {{}} may be skipped and {{}} given straight after the first warning. If, however, you are not sure that the edit is vandalism, always start with {{}}. If a user made such an edit and reverted it themselves, use a {{}}. For extreme or extensive cases of vandalism committed by users who have received no prior warnings, {{}} may be used. The ~~~~ in the templates below cause the time and your signature to be added to the warning.

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