Wikipedia:Reviewing pending changes

This page documents an English Wikipedia behavioral guideline.

Editors should generally follow it, though exceptions may apply. Substantive edits to this page should reflect consensus. When in doubt, discuss first on the talk page.

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Reviewing pending changes in a nutshell: Reviewing pending changes consists of determining whether a new revision is broadly acceptable for public view or not.

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This page explains and provides the guidelines for the review process associated with the pending changes protection feature (enabled on 1 December 2012). Articles with pending changes applied can be reviewed by administrators or users called pending changes reviewers (reviewer user group) who hold the pending changes reviewer permission. The process of reviewing is intended as a quick check to ensure edits don't contain vandalism, violations of the policy on living people, copyright violations, or other obviously inappropriate content.

Currently, there are 859 administrators and 7,974 pending changes reviewers on the English Wikipedia. (In total, 8,833 user accounts have this right.)