Help:Patrolling recent changes

Patrolling Recent Changes
The patrolling of recent changes is done only on Recent Changes and Talk pages.

Patrolling Recent Changes and Talk Pages

 * Go to the Recent Changes report 
 * Log in with your username and password. (This requires Moderator rights.)
 * Click here to get a list of recent changes to patrol.
 * Select to view 500 results (keep Namespace selected "all")
 * Click on Hide patrolled edits to only show those pages that need patrolling.
 * Find Talk pages to patrol 
 * Click the dropdown next to Namespace.
 * Select Talk. Then click Go.
 * Pages with the ! or m! before the page title need to be patrolled.
 * Click (diff) at the beginning of the line to see the specific change that was made.
 * When complete, go back to the Namespace list and choose User Talk. Then click Go.
 * Go through the following patrolling steps for the Talk pages associated with each of the 11 namespaces.
 * Patrol the changes
 * If the policies and guidelines are being followed, click [Mark as patrolled]. It is located at the top under the right side revision information, above the changes.
 * We are also looking for:
 * Questions that users ask
 * Problems, concerns, or other issues that may need to be resolved
 * Trends that may indicate larger concerns or issues to resolve
 * If the comment on the page is regarding one of the above, see the Help:Patrolling Talk pages page for more information.