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Patrollers are an all-volunteer group of experienced users who are given access to extra tools on Halopedia.

Introduction to Patrollers

Patrollers are regular users who are given access to a few extra tools to help with the managing of the site and combating of vandalism.

Marking page revisions or user edits as "patrolled" to help with the reverting of poor or bad-faith edits.
Deleting and undeleting pages, uploaded images and page histories.
Protecting a page so it can not be edited or moved by anonymous users (autoconfirmed protection) or non-admins (full/sysop protection).
Quick reversion ("rollback") of undesirable edits.

List of Patrollers

Can I become a Patroller?

Patrollers are usually selected on an as-needed basis only. Because the main purpose of the Patroller program is to mark good-quality page revisions for the aid of preserving article quality, users with good-quality edits and regular activity under their name are usually seen as potential candidates to join the program.

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-'''Patrollers''' are users who are given blocking, rollback, patrolling, and CheckUser rights.
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-Current Patrollers are listed at [[Special:ListUsers/patroller]].
+'''Patrollers''' are an all-volunteer group of experienced users who are given access to extra tools on Halopedia.
-Rollback allows reverting edits to become easier. Patrollers can simply click the rollback button in the history page, rather than undoing the edit. This feature makes fighting [[Halopedia:Vandalism|vandalism]] more effective.
+==Introduction to Patrollers==
+Patrollers are regular users who are given access to a few extra tools to help with the managing of the site and combating of [[Halopedia:Vandalism|vandalism]].
+*Marking page revisions or user edits as "patrolled" to help with the reverting of poor or bad-faith edits.
+*Deleting and undeleting pages, uploaded images and page histories.
+*Protecting a page so it can not be edited or moved by anonymous users (autoconfirmed protection) or non-admins (full/sysop protection).
+*Quick reversion ("rollback") of undesirable edits.
-Patrollers can be considered an in-between of users and [[Halopedia:Administrators|sysops]] and are chosen by [[Halopedia:Bureaucrats|bureaucrats]] for a) activeness and b) trust.
+===List of Patrollers===
+===Can I become a Patroller?===
-Although most sysops were patrollers at one point, a user can be promoted immediately to sysop and never be a patroller. The two roles are considered entirely separate as far as promotion goes, but work together to block vandals and "patrol" recent changes.
+Patrollers are usually selected on an as-needed basis only. Because the main purpose of the Patroller program is to mark good-quality page revisions for the aid of preserving article quality, users with good-quality edits and regular activity under their name are usually seen as potential candidates to join the program.
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