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Main page editor is a user group that allows highly trusted users to edit content on the main page.

Permissions

The Main-page-editor group gives access to editprotected and protect user rights, which allows editors to edit pages transcluded onto the main page through full and cascading protection, as well as the ability to activate two-factor authentication (oathauth-enable).

Appropriate use

Main page editors may use their userrights for one or more of the following activities, in compliance with content policy and main-page specific guidelines:

• Making adjustments to content on the main page in response to consensus at Wikipedia:Main Page/Errors, based on all relevant content policies.
• Fixing clear-cut grammatical and formatting issues with content on the main page.
• Moving DYK preps to queues in compliance with Wikipedia:Did you know/Admin instructions.
• Editing DYK queues in response to consensus at Wikipedia talk:Did you know and in compliance with Wikipedia:Did you know/Admin instructions and Wikipedia:Did you know/Reviewing guide.
• Promoting items to Template:In the news based on consensus at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates, in compliance with Wikipedia:In the news/Administrator instructions.
• Removing and/or adjusting content on Template:In the news based on consensus at Wikipedia:In the news/Candidates, in compliance with Wikipedia:In the news/Administrator instructions.
• Adding or changing items listed in the "On This Day" section of the main page, in compliance with the instructions at Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries.
• Adding images at Wikipedia:Main Page/Commons media protection as appropriate.

Inappropriate use

Main page editors who use their rights to perform actions not covered by this policy may have their rights removed. Main page editors are forbidden from using main page editor permissions for any actions unrelated to updating and maintaining main page content, including:

• Protecting, unprotecting, or changing protection level of pages including by transcluding them onto cascade-protected pages. ^[a]
• Moving fully move-protected pages.
• Editing through protection on fully-protected pages other than the components of the main page.

Main page editors are also forbidden from using their rights to engage in behavior that would be prohibited in other areas of Wikipedia, including editing in violation of sanctions or topic/interaction bans, and edit warring over content on the main page.

Granting the right

The rights associated with this usergroup are extremely sensitive. Access to them should only be granted to those editors who demonstrate a clear need for access to it, and who have an established track record of positive contributions.

The Main-page-editor group may be granted by any uninvolved administrator to any editor following a successful request at Wikipedia Talk:Main page editor.

Any user who previously held main page editor rights, and had them removed solely for inactivity, may have their rights restored to them via request at Wikipedia Talk:Main page editor; if after a period of 24 hours no valid concerns are raised, any uninvolved administrator may restore the group membership.

Any administrator in good standing may be granted access to these rights upon relinquishing their administrator access.

The absence of recent work on main page content, as described in the "Requirements for Granting" section of this page, is explicitly considered a valid concern with respect to granting or reinstating membership in this usergroup.

Process for requesting

1. In a new section, make a request at Wikipedia Talk:Main page editor.
   • A notification about the request should be posted to Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article, Wikipedia talk:In the news, Wikipedia talk:Did you know, Wikipedia talk:Selected anniversaries, Wikipedia talk:Picture of the day, Wikipedia talk:Today's featured list, and Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard.
   • If a previous application for Main page editor was unsuccessful, the following people should be notified of the new discussion: participants in the most recent discussion, and the closing administrator of the most recent discussion.
   • If the Main page editor right was previously removed for any reason other than inactivity, the following people should be notified of the new discussion: participants in any discussion that resulted in the rights being removed, the administrator who closed the discussion, and the administrator who implemented its outcome.
   • The discussion must include explicit links to any previous discussion on Wikipedia Talk:Main page editor or Wikipedia:Administrators' Noticeboard in which the suitability of the user for this group was discussed.
2. The discussion will be open at least 7 days, after which it will be closed by an uninvolved administrator, who will grant the right if there is consensus that the editor will use the main page editor rights within policy.

Requirements for granting

Must meet all these criteria:

1. Demonstrated need for access, which may be through significant work at any one or more of the following:

   a) Scheduling Today's Featured Article;

   b) Examining candidates for posting to In The News;

   c) Working on prep sets at Did You Know;

   d) Working on On This Day entries;

   e) Working on Today's Featured Picture;

   f) Scheduling Today's Featured List;

   g) Working to fix mistakes on the main page at WP:ERRORS

2. A thorough understanding of policy and procedure at the Main page project(s) at which they intend to work.
3. A thorough understanding of Wikipedia's content-related policies, and in particular our policies related to neutrality, verifiability, original research, and content about living people.
4. Sufficient ability with the English language to edit the main page without introducing errors.
5. Sufficient understanding of Wikipedia's behavioral expectations of editors to collaboratively edit the main page.

Requirements for retaining

Users must at all times have made edits to the Main page or its various section work/talk pages within the last year to retain their group membership.

Process for removing right

Self-requested removal

• Any main page editor may request the removal of their rights at Wikipedia:Administrators Noticeboard at any time.

For inactivity

• Any uninvolved administrator may remove the group from any user who does not meet the activity requirement.

In an emergency

• In response to actual disruption caused by an editor using this access, any administrator may remove the group at their discretion without prior notification. The administrator must then open a discussion for removal of this group, as described in sub-section Via discussion below.

Via discussion

• If the situation is not urgent, any user in good standing may make a request at Wikipedia:Administrators' Noticeboard for the group to be removed from any editor who is at the time a main page editor. The user in question must be notified about the discussion on their talk page. This discussion will remain open for at least 7 days after the user was notified, after which an uninvolved administrator will close the discussion, and remove the group membership unless there is consensus that the editor will use the main page editor rights within policy. Such a discussion may also be initiated for any editor who does not currently hold main page editor rights, but who has previously held such rights, and would be eligible to receive them again upon request, subject to activity requirements.

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